Erwin Schrodinger Quotes about Consciousness

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Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Erwin Schrodinger

Fundamentals, Consciousness, Term

The Observer, January 11, 1931.

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

Erwin Schrodinger

Consciousness

There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

Erwin Schrodinger

Lying, Kind, Consciousness

"My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 4), 1961.

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...

Erwin Schrodinger

Mind, World, Consciousness

"Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.