Quotes About Cognition

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

psychological factors

Alcohol does not make a smarter individual.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

Thinking of mind as program trained you to think in absolutes

the transformative power of intelligence, self-reliance, and words.

You can't think about thinking without thinking about something

I notice things.

Our cognitive skills are not fixed. At all ages the brain has the ability to respond to new information and new stimuli. Our intellectual abilities are a combination of our inherent genetic gifts and the lifelong consequences of all of the decisions we make that either positively or negatively contribute to our cognitive fitness.

Thought is just a secretion from our brain.

Only smart people can make silly mistakes.

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.

We're still analogue beings. Our brains and eyes are analogue.

Never let your eyes and your mind to be in the same place.