Quotes About Cognition

Efek kepemilikan itu tidak rasional, dan itu nyata-tetapi tidak mempengaruhi orang-orang yang berpengalaman dalam situasi-situasi realistis.

Menjadi rasional tidaklah sama dengan menjadi sangat cerdas secara intelektual.

What does it mean when you remember something that you know never happened?

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Between the stimulation received from the environment and our response, certain processes had to occur inside the brain, and cognitive researchers revealed the human mind to be a great interpreting machine that made patterns and created sense of the world outside, forming maps of reality.

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

modern painting and the psychedelic sacraments -- offered humanity a new way of seeing, an enlarged and deepened definition of reality, a freshened and intensely sensual awareness of what it means to be a cognitive mammal on a tiny planet spinning precariously in the backwash of an infinite universe, a perpetually endangered species kept alive -- and occasionally driven quite mad -- by its capacity to love.

Who knows what causes the human brain to split its britches. It would seem that the brain hangs so many curtains between itself and the true universe that eventually light can no longer reach it, and it molds and rots and festers in the dark.

C.R.A.F.T."—Can't Remember a Fucking Thing—and

Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder

It's how I keep my mind from becoming mush. Learn and think. Think and learn.

If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.

Leer un libro va tallando senderos neuronales totalmente nuevos en el antiguo lecho de roca cortical de nuestro cerebro. Transforma la manera que tenemos de ver el mundo. Nos hace más alerta a la vida interior de los demás.

Yet anchoring your thoughts unswervingly in the present, focusing exclusively, immediately, on the here and now, is a cognitive discipline that both psychopathy and spiritual enlightenment have in common.

Mõnikord võib mõistusevastane käitumine osutuda hoopiski ratsionaalseks.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Heavily cognified, incredibly smart filters can be applied to any realm

You can't reason someone out of a notion that they didn't reason themselves into.

Do you own your own thoughts, or are you merely accessing them?

Memories are also tainted by lies.

Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions.

Laughter helps my mind learn.

Never forget what is in your mind

Regular exercise is associated with greater hippocampal and overall brain volume. Since the brain naturally starts to shrink by 1–2 per cent per year starting around the age of 40, regular exercise can, in effect, reverse brain ageing. For the moment, exercise is the closest thing we have to the fountain of eternal youth.