Christof Koch
German-American neuroscientist seeking neural correlates of consciousness.
Most quoted
"Consciousness is not something that emerges from complexity; it is a fundamental property of certain complex systems."
— from Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, 2012
"The hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how physical processes give rise to subjective experience."
— from The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, 2004
"We are not just passive observers of the world; we are active participants, constantly constructing our reality."
— from Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, 2012
All quotes by Christof Koch (100)
Curiosity drives the engine of discovery.
Consciousness blooms in the garden of complexity.
To know the brain is to know the soul.
Humor in science: the brain laughs at its own jokes.
Life is a conscious computation.
Theories of mind are maps, not the territory.
Neuroscience is the poetry of biology.
Awareness is the light of integrated information.
The quest never ends; that's its beauty.
Brains wired for wonder.
Consciousness: the ultimate emergent property.
In silence, the mind speaks loudest.
Evolution sculpted the stage for consciousness.
Romantic science embraces the unknown.
The neural code is the language of thought.
Meaning arises from connection.
Doubt is the brain's way of learning.
Conscious machines? Perhaps, if they integrate deeply.
The joy of discovery is consciousness at work.
Philosophy and neuroscience: twins in pursuit of truth.
Contemporaries of Christof Koch
Other Cognitive Sciences born within 50 years of Christof Koch (1956).