Quotes About Cognition

All that is really going in your mouth is texture and chemicals. It is your brain that reads these scentless, flavorless molecules and vivifies them for your pleasure. Your brownie is sheet music. It is your brain that makes it a symphony.

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance. That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Capgras syndrome is a condition in which sufferers become convinced that those they know well are imposters. In Klüver-Bucy syndrome the victim develops urges to eat and fornicate indiscriminately (to the understandable dismay of loved ones).46 Perhaps the most bizarre of all is Cotard delusion, in which the sufferer believes he is dead and cannot be convinced otherwise.47

Brain cells last as long as you do. You are issued with a hundred billion or so at birth and that is all you are ever going to get. It has been estimated that you lose five hundred of them an hour, so if you have any serious thinking to do there really isn't a moment to waste.

Human memories are short and inaccurate.

The brain takes a long time to form completely. A teenager's brain is only about 80 percent finished

As with so much else, you experience the world that your brain allows you to experience.

To help us deal better with this fractional lag, the brain does a truly extraordinary thing: it continuously forecasts what the world will be like a fifth of a second from now, and that is what it gives us as the present. That means that we never see the world as it is at this very instant, but rather as it will be a fraction of a moment in the future. We spend our whole lives, in other words, living in a world that doesn't quite exist yet.

It is in all that complex synaptic entanglement that our intelligence lies, not in the number of neurons , as was once thought.

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.

was not so much how memory works as how difficult it is to understand how it works.

some birds and marine mammals are able to switch off one half of their brain at a time, so that one half remains alert while the other is snoozing.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is basically being too stupid to know how stupid you are. That

Even now the only certain way to tell if a brain is working is if its owner says it is.

IQ test was invented not to determine how smart people are but how stupid)

Kanizsa triangle

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

If the fact that brutes abstract not be made the distinguishing property of that sort of animal, I fear a great many of those that pass for men must be reckoned into their number.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality

Just as we harm the understanding, we harm the feelings also.

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think