Quotes About Cognition

The brain gives us two ways to evaluate experiences like suffering—there is how we apprehend such experiences in the moment and how we look at them afterward—and the two ways are deeply contradictory.

Somewhere in my mind, I must have been aware of the possibility that

The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.

Even our brains shrink: at the age of thirty, the brain is a three-pound organ that barely fits inside the skull; by our seventies, gray-matter loss leaves almost an inch of spare room.

The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory. Boorman didn't think one had to be religious on this point. "It

It is affected by the order in which information is presented and how problems are framed.

Memorization is not the same as remembering.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden, Francisco said softly, except one: the refusal to think.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. Things as they are are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become things as perceived by your wishes.

Then she remembered.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

She looked slowly about her, noting every object and the reason for its presence.

It was not possible to think except with one's brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his inner processes.

Was it possible for thought to exist without consciousness?

A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The inexpressible therefore is unknowable. By examining future stages in the evolution of language we come to learn what discoveries, changes and social revolutions the language will be capable, some day, of reflecting.

L'uomo è in grado di apprendere poche cose la volta; vediamo soltanto ciò che accade dinanzi a noi, qui e ora; non siamo capaci di figurarci una serie di processi che avvengono simultaneamente, per quanto siano legati o complementari gli uni agli altri. Questo vale anche per fenomeni relativamente semplici. La sorte di un uomo è significativa, quella di cento si può appena afferrare; ma la storia di mille, di un milione, propriamente parlando, non ci dice niente.

The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in front of us int he here and now, and cannot envisage simultaneously a succession of processes, no matter how integrated and complementary. Our faculties of perception are consequently limited even as regards fairly simple phenomena.

El ser humano no es capaz de formular todos los conocimientos que debe a sus experiencias personales.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Nearly) all thinking is associative. While it's easy to spot the obvious metaphorical associations ("iceberg"), associations go all the way down to conceptual ideas (up is good) to more fundamental associations that began perhaps in the womb with spatial orientation.