Quotes About Cognition

Ten presente que las cosas que te metes en la cabeza están ahí para siempre. Quizá deberías pensar en eso. —Algunas cosas las olvidas, ¿no? —Sí. Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.

remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Just remember that the things you put in your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, don't you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Lo que escapa a mi conocimiento, escapa a mi consentimiento.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, don't you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

if mathematics is performed mostly in the unconscious we still have no notion as to how it goes about it. ... And why is it so often right? Who does it check its work with? I've had solutions simply handed to me. Out of the blue. The locus ceruleus perhaps. And it has to remember everything. No notes. It's hard to escape the unsettling conclusion that it is not using numbers.

Not sure why. But you have to understand what the advent of language was like. The brain had done pretty well without it for quite a few million years. The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.

It's easier to remember two things than one. It's why it's easier to remember the words of a song than the words of a poem. For instance. The music is an armature upon which you assemble the words.

The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.

The you that is you is actually the space of things that you might think in response to some stimulus.

I accidentally knew all the words.

She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw.

There was something I ought to remember: and yet I did not remember.

No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words.

most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing. So

it is utterly impossible for any human mind, no matter how brilliant, to think of more than one thing at any given time.

intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Study of light hitting a head.

I very rarely think in words at all

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

Thoughts are thoughts and that's all they are.

epistemological