"We must not minimize the fundamental nature of the challenge implicit in consciousness research. Western science is about understanding cause. It is a tenet of modern society that science can lead us toward the ultimate explanations for phenomena. However, the very conviction that a complete nomothetic science is possible—that everything can be ultimately explained through inviolable scientific laws—rules out consciousness (mind, spirit) as a causal reality. At the same time, everything in our personal experience affirms the importance of our ability to choose, and our deep inner guidance toward the better choice. This poses a fundamental dilemma. Either we must deny our own innate wisdom because "science knows better," or we have to face the fundamental inability of science in its present form (quantum physics and all) to give us an adequate cosmology to live by and to guide our society by."

— Willis Harman
"Toward a Science of Consciousness,"
paper at the First Tucson Conference on Consciousness, 1994

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