Quotes About Cognition

There is an economy in your mind

Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.

System 2 thinking tries to follow proper rules of reasoning

Inner speech seems to be an important part of System 2 thinking.

speech has a role in what is now called executive control.

What does it feel like to be a frog perceiving the world

There is no question that "discourse penetrates a fair way into the perceptual system" (Harre and Gillet 1994, p. 169).

As Buddha said, "All that we are is determined by our thoughts.

This is what fascinates me most: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

Consciousness of unconsciousness

36:...Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this?

Relation of word to object . . . what is a word? Arbitrary sign. But we live in words. Our reality, among words not things. No such thing as thing anyhow; a gestalt in the mind.

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself.)

thousand thoughts wandered loose in his head as he lay, fully awake. What

O inconsciente é seletivo quando aprende a distinguir o que deve ouvir.

I've just read it so much, it memorized itself.

Then excuse me, Miss Silver, but they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.

they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.

She thought thought that without noticing that she'd thought it, and she soon forgot it, and only remembered it much later.

He couldn't possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good.