Quotes About Cognition

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

There, in the dirty sludge of a winter highway, he learned for the first time that a lot of life is all in the mind.

of the bone even making it into the hippocampus.

When it comes to money, just having heard of something isn't enough; you've got to know what it means.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

We inhabit two universes, then, One is the universe inside our skulls - our viewpoint universe, as it were.

The file cabinets in my head are never-ending rows of knowledge and creativity.

The processors in my mind are faster than most computers

Losing parts of your memory didn't make you an idiot.

Yo me acuerdo que recordaba -murmuró. Emitió un largo suspiro mientras se sentaba, encogía las piernas y ponía los brazos alrededor de ellas-. Sentimientos. Emociones. Como si tuviera en mi cabeza estantes con etiquetas para los recuerdos y las caras, pero vacíos. Como si todo lo anterior esto se encontrara del otro lado de una cortina blanca. También tú.

We are our thoughts and memories and personalities.

These people will think their way around an ice cream cone before ever giving it a lick.

was as if his memory loss had stolen a chunk of his language—it was disorienting.

These experiments demonstrate the conceptual synesthesia connecting our ideas of the concrete experience of space and the abstract experience of time. Our concept of physical motion through space is scaffolded onto our concept of chronological motion through time. Experiencing one-indeed, merely thinking about one-influences our experience of and thoughts about the other, just as the theory of embodied cognition suggests.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

The mind constructs small-scale models of reality to anticipate events, to reason, and to underlie explanation.

The human brain loves exercise.

Sometimes it's more painful to know the truth than not to know it." -Han Solo

Watch for contradictory information (page 37).

It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.

Formal schooling tends to demand that humans use their memories the way computers do, rather than the way humans do. This, too, can make people seem stupid.

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

This is the outer surface of the brain where much of our thinking is done. Unfolded, this surface layer would cover the area of a football field