Quotes About Cognition

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

But the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower. Hence the knowledge of every knower is ruled according to its own nature. If therefore the mode of anything's being exceeds the mode of the knower, it must result that the knowledge of the object is above the nature of the knower. Now the mode of being of things is manifold.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.

I've come to learn that you could read through one hundred things, ninety of them could be positive, those ten negative ones are the ones you're going to remember, that are going to stand out.

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

few people in the department. Like him, they recognized the name but couldn't place it.

IN Incognito the neuroscientist David Eagleman proposes that we are unknown to ourselves: Most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

Hay tres clases de cerebros: el primero discierne por sí, el segundo entiende lo que los otros disciernen y el tercero no entiende ni discierne lo que los otros disciernen. El primero es excelente, el segundo bueno y el tercero inútil.

I became a kinesthetic person because I always overintellectualize. And feelings, for me, are a concept. Feelings? Ah yes, I've heard of those.

rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.

If we are biological organisms, not angels, then our cognitive faculties are similar to those called "physical capacities" and should be studied much as other systems of the body are.

There are any number of questions that might lead one to undertake a study of language. Personally, I am primarily intrigued by the possibility of learning something, from the study of language, that will bring to light inherent properties of the human mind.

Because you cannot study the acquisition or use of language in an intelligent manner without having some idea about this language which is acquired or utilized.