Quotes About Cognition

The ease with which one is capable of deluding oneself in this field is legendary.

in order for someone to see reality as it is occurring there must be mental processing. Mental processing requires time; small amount that it might be, it is still sufficient to make an observation history. In other words, everything we humans believe we are seeing is in the past.

cognition allows us to understand its dimensions. In simpler terms, we collect information from the past and the future, combine it with what we have in a temporary historical reference (or what we call memory), and our minds then tell us where and when we are. Being psychic is simply being more sensitive to the sea around us. It's simply a method that allows for additional sense of being.

I began to get the idea that this wasn't the brightest cat I'd ever met.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

This human understands enough to know when he's being messed with.

Raw neural input, from a brain that was not my own.

We are epistemological beings: we live out an orientation to knowing, whether we "know" it or not.

You can remember without seeing it.

Visualization is not just some spiritual event—it's a basic cognitive process.

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

Our contemporary forms of reading threaten to reduce that amplification. Aside from the fact that overusing digital technologies eventually makes us less mentally agile and more forgetful (as research increasingly shows), the kind of segmented, bite-sized reading we do on the internet fragments and constricts the 'space to think', instead of expanding it; in a sense, it reduces or even rubbishes our mental experience. Our minds

When you look at all this massive data that comes in from our senses, and it all has to come in through this central point, it's really interesting that we can identify the filter that our mind is using to select what it thinks is relevant and what it's going to forget.

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

As naturally athletic as I'm gifted to be, where certain things came easily, I always rely on my brain first.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

I am terrible at remembering names.

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.