Quotes About Cognition

This is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

My brain contains so much that is locked up and unreachable.

He didn't consciously bring Brub to memory. It was one of those minnows of thought, darting through the unruffled pond of his thinking.

in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.

He was experiencing the aural equivalent of looking at a picture of two black silhouetted faces and suddenly seeing it as a picture of a white candlestick. Or of looking at a lot of colored dots on a piece of paper which suddenly resolve themselves into the figure six and mean that your optician is going to charge you a lot of money for a new pair of glasses.

Si los seres humanos no dejan de hacer ejercicio con los labios, su cerebro empieza a funcionar.

if human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

PRODO -explicó- es algo que no podemos ver, que no distinguimos o que nuestra mente no nos deja observar porque creemos que es un problema de otro. Eso es lo que significa PRODO. Problema de Otro. El cerebro se limita solamente a perfilarlo, es como un punto ciego. Si se mira directamente no se ve, a menos que se sepa qué es exactamente. La única esperanza consiste en percibirlo por sorpresa con el rabillo del ojo.

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this - If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working

If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working

Di me stesso so solo quel tanto che riesco a capire nelle mie attuali condizioni mentali. E le mie attuali condizioni mentali non sono buone.

Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath.

thinking is not really something they are cut out for.

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Se gli umani non si esercitano in continuazione a parlare, il loro cervello rischia di mettersi a funzionare

I say 'Uhmm...' a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it's a CPU word. It means you're assembling data in your head - spooling.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's quotation: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function?

This was a big divergence from the way human children learn language, and that itself was interesting.

seventy percent of human beings fall in the average or below-average range in intelligence. In other words, more than two-thirds of all human beings are average, which is stupid enough, or they're clinical morons.

The Stanford-Binet curve demonstrates that seventy percent of human beings fall in the average or below-average range in intelligence. In other words, more than two-thirds of all human beings are average, which is stupid enough, or they're clinical morons.

Most people, in my experience, are a little thick. If not abundantly so.

The act of living causes brain damage.