Quotes About Cognition

He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

Was one head dominant, or did they serve different functions?

How subjective the world must have been, then, when no one could remember the same events, and nobody would remember them for long.

If she could externalize, make the emotion other, she would not believe it.

He remembered more of being human than the humans did.

Oh, human memory is shorter than I thought.

Your brain is optimized for pattern-sensing," Gavin commented. "And chatter.

Sometimes you know before you know.

It was funny how with grown-ups you had to say the same things again and again. Perhaps that was why babies were born with such big heads: the head stayed the same and the person got larger, but it meant that there was the same amount of room in your brain to remember things, so the longer you lived, the more you forgot.

it's owing to Roth and the handful of others like her who know

it revealed how people process disruptive information. Their first impulse is to force it into a familiar framework:

Most people don´t like to think, period.

It's odd how the mind does not take in anything until it can.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Like Charles Murray in The Bell Curve, Wells foresees a future divided between a permanent underclass and a "cognitive elite.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

Morala nu-i decât o sl?biciune a creierului.

It is wrong to say: I think. One should say: I am thought.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions.

He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.

Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition— The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?

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