Quotes About Cognition

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Grasp the subject; the words will follow.

Er gebeuren dingen om ons heen. Maar we merken ze nauwelijks. We zijn doof en blind.

There is strong evidence that intuitions are based on simple, smart rules that take into account only some of the available information.

Humans appear to have a need for certainty, a motivation to hold on to something rather than to question it. People with a high need for certainty are more prone to stereotypes than others and are less inclined to remember information that contradicts their stereotypes.3

It doesn't matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Le moyen le plus sûr de cacher aux autres les limites de son savoir est de ne jamais les dépasser.

Men at first feel without perceiving, then they perceive with a troubled and agitated spirit, finally they reflect with a clear mind.

It is another property of the human mind that whenever men can form no idea of distant and unknown things, they judge them by what is familiar and at hand.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

In making sense of what you say, in appreciating your jokes, in unmasking your chess-stratagems, in following your arguments and in hearing you pick holes in my arguments, I am not inferring to the workings of your mind, I am following them. Of course, I am not merely hearing the noises that you make, or merely seeing the movements that you perform. I am understanding what I hear and see. But this understanding is not inferring to occult causes.

Nor does this understanding require a prolonged grounding in the not yet established laws of psychology.

It is a subsidiary question how you conduct your imaginings, including your imagined monologues.

If I think, hope, remember, will, regret, hear a noise, or feel a pain, I must, ipso facto, know that I do so.

It is naturally difficult, if one denies the existence of the second theatre, to elucidate what is meant by describing the episodes which are supposed to take place in it as self-intimating. But some points are clear enough. It is not supposed that when I am wondering, say, what is the answer to a puzzle and am ipso facto consciously doing so, that I am synchronously performing two acts of attention, one to the puzzle and the other to my wondering about it.

The rules that he observes have become his way of thinking, when he is taking care; they are not external rubrics with which he has to square his thoughts.

Because the construction of meaning requires many kinds of integration networks in addition to simplex networks, a great deal of semantics falls outside the realm of symbolic logic.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

a compartmentalized mental, cultural, and spatial framework that appeared to be widespread.

The mind is useful in making distinctions between things, finding differences, and evaluating them.

Thinking and experiencing are two very different experiences, different states of consciousness, really. One is a mental experience and one is an actual experience of reality.

Mucho más potente que el oro es, en opinión mía, la inteligencia.

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