Quotes About Cognition

La televisión produce imágenes y anula los conceptos, y de este modo atrofia nuestra capacidad de abstracción y con ella toda nuestra capacidad de entender.

Sleep is the price we pay for learning

I can't read Mason & Dixon , since my mind's so shitty, I can't process it!

Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

Our brains are organized by narrative and image. After

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter.

When Ideas float in our Mind, without any Reflection or Regard of the Understanding, it is that, which the French call Reverie; our Language has scarce a Name for it...

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

consciousness

Let us leave this room, said Melancthe. It reeks of the brain.

But it is of critical importance to ask ourselves what features which other animals do not possess have given human beings the very special capacities with which we are concerned in these lectures: the ability to utter cognitive sentences (which no other animal can do) and the ability therefore to exercise knowledge and imagination.

All knowledge is worth having

Chapter 2: Thought Waves and Their Process of Reproduction

It's funny about people. Just before something happens, you almost know what it is. You do know what it is, I believe. You just haven't had the time—and now you won't have the time—to say it to yourself.

why remember that nonsense? It weakens the mind.

Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.