Quotes About Cognition

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According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

The reason people get lost in thought is that it's unfamiliar territory.

If I could write one sentence that would magically increase your IQ by thirty points, would you be interested in reading that sentence?

increase your IQ by thirty points, would you be interested in reading that

Strogo uzevši, oko je samo produžena alatka našeg istinskog vizualnog osjetilnog organa - mozga, koji nikada ne dopušta da promatramo stvarnost, nego samo njezinu interpretaciju.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

les quatre activités les plus fréquemment compromises au début de la maladie d'Alzheimer sont l'usage sécuritaire des médicaments, l'emploi efficace des transports, l'utilisation régulière du téléphone ou d'un autre moyen de communication et la gestion responsable de ses finances.

One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it. On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition:

You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

Deep inside the workings of the human brain, there is no actual 'truth.' The part of the brain that stores all of the messages you have received, accepts what it is told most often. It then plays back to you the strongest messages it has received. And it plays those messages back to you as 'truth' or 'fact,' whether the messages are actually true or not.

called thoughts. ?Every thought we think, every conscious or unconscious thought we say to ourselves, is translated into electrical impulses in the brain, which, in turn, direct the control centers in our brains to electrically and chemically affect and control every motion, every feeling, every action we take, every moment of every day. ?Whatever "thoughts" you

our thoughts not only become wired into our brain––they change the structure of the brain itself.

Space and Time are the modes by which we think, not the conditions in which we live' – Albert Einstein

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Reading.... is brain protein - it demands concentration and sustained neural energy.

I paused for a moment with the strangest feeling of reverse déjà vu. Instead of getting the sense that I'd seen something before, I felt like I hadn't seen it before, even though I knew I had.

Emerging evidence suggests that people who are suffering from depression are unable to recognize novelty.

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

Deleted the memory—need room for facts," I took the time to type.

our thinking leads our feelings (not the other way around)...

People transform their actual experience, their opinions, and so on, in ways that correspond to their own particular Deletions, Distortions, and Generalizations.

By deleting, distorting and generalizing, we inhabit our perceptions and interpretations of Reality

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.