Understanding intuition involves recognizing that our brains constantly mix conscious and unconscious signals, influencing our decisions without our awareness.

We have a strong intuition that consciousness is causal and drives behavior, but neuroscience shows we lack evidence for this belief.

The most unsettling idea about consciousness is how non-conscious matter in the universe can configure to create an experience of being from the inside, and the mystery of how that transition occurs keeps me up at night.

My work aims to challenge our intuitions about consciousness and encourage creative thinking about its nature.

Despite over 20 years of studying consciousness with neuroscientists, we have not made any progress in understanding how consciousness comes to be, which I find categorically different from anything else science has studied.

The brain creates conscious experiences that help us navigate the world, but these experiences do not necessarily reflect the underlying reality, as described by the term 'controlled hallucinations.'

The idea of a single self is challenged by split-brain studies, which show that different conscious experiences can arise within the same body, leading to the conclusion that consciousness may not be a singular entity.

My mission is to demystify consciousness through neuroscience, focusing on measuring aspects of the mind that were previously thought unmeasurable, such as visualization and intuition.

Consciousness can only be known from the inside; we cannot get true evidence of a conscious experience from the outside, which is different from any other scientific study.