Quotes About Cognition

Computers are great for experimentation, but they're bad for deep thinking.

The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.

I catch myself. It's not that bad. But I occasionally switch a word with another word.

Do you leave the formulation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.

Está pensando en su cerebro. Le parece extraño que, aunque no funcione bien, su cerebro vaya a servirle para entender por qué no funciona.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

The brain makes up l/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy.

The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.

The brain makes up 1/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy.

The brain makes up l/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy. If your brain were a car, in terms of gas mileage, it'd be a Hummer.

People who can pick up on trends, spot patterns, wonder about irregularities, and notice coincidences are an important resource.

Intuition is the use of patterns they've already learned, whereas insight is the discovery of new patterns.

Neurologists tell us a startling truth that has major implications for spiritual formation: Our choices and experience shape our brain, both literally and physiologically. What we choose cognitively helps make us into who we are.

Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melody (and hence consist of the same sequence of intervals).

Thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams exist on Earth because of electrical activity inside a 1.5-kilogram blob of stuff, which hasn't changed much since the earliest modern humans began the long journey out of Africa

The only prison we can never escape is our brain, and yet our brain is what sets us free.

Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be

However, memories—unlike reality—aren't fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can't distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.

I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened.

In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over

My characterization influences your brain.