Quotes About Cognition

A 'biomass' man does not use logical and analytical thinking

Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind.

The best way to acquire wisdom is by perceptual realization.

To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality.

Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.

They don't directly listen to you.They just hear things within their minds that triggered by your words.

Realize Realization with Knowledge!

A mind is a terrible thing

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

assumed both the capability and the fallibility of human reason.

Robert Heinlein once put it . . . Man is a rationalizing animal not a rational one.

Another study, in which participants were asked to determine whether or not a capital letter in a word was a vowel or consonant (jewEl, fAble, oRacle, breaTh) found that it strongly disrupted subsequent semantic processing of unconsciously encountered words. In other words, the ability to determine the meaning in words, at an unconscious level, was inhibited.

As Kiefer et al. note, again in an insult to clear languaging, "The capture of visuo-spatial attention by unconscious stimuli likewise was shown to depend on the match between the stimulus feathers and a fitting top-down search template."17 In other words, some things have to be believed to be seen or, another way of putting it: if you assume something is not there, then, to you, it won't be.

Interestingly, the word, intelligence, comes from the Latin phrase inter legere—it means, simply, "to choose.

which in turn could lead to a breakdown in cognitive integrity and difficulty in distinguishing self from nonself. 4 We need some sort of gating, and some control over gating, in order to function within the sea of sensory communications in which we are embedded.

The truth is that thoughts, perceptions, and memories, actually occur somewhere else and then are received and processed by the brain in a way similar to how a cell phone or radio receiver works.