Stephen LaBerge

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.