Quotes About Processing

Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process and recall the facts that we are motivated to process and recall, while conveniently forgetting those that we would prefer weren't true.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

But emotions teach those who are willing to pay attention. By processing them, we learn to empathize, and love ourselves and others. In fact, understanding this aspect of our being is central to healing our family history, because it holds the most powerful energy that we use to create our lives.

Working memory involves two different but related skills. The first is the ability to hold information in mind while performing complex tasks.

I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.

With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

Without error-correction all information processing, and hence all knowledge-creation, is necessarily bounded. Error-correction is the beginning of infinity.

By one estimate, your five senses take in 11,000,000 bits of information per second, of which you consciously process about 40 (Wilson, 2002).

At any moment, you and I are aware of little more than what's on the screen of our consciousness. But beneath the surface, unconscious information processing occurs simultaneously on many parallel tracks.

Technology is taking over mind control programmes today, which allows them to go direct to the brain's information processing systems through the medium of electricity, electromagnetism, frequency, and microchips.

Raw data, like raw potatoes, usually require cleaning before use. Ronald A. Thisted

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

It's okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying, like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it's vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

Sleep is when the brain processes everything. It's when we delve deepest into that well.