Quotes About Cognition

There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.

Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

To you things that aren't thinkable in intellectual terms aren't worth thinking about.

Los recuerdos del pasado no son recuerdos de los hechos, sino recuerdos de tu imaginación de los hechos

How you think matters more than what you think

Lewis was "the best read man of his generation, one who read everything and remembered everything he read

I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the 'darkness' of sensory knowledge.

Just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.

Knowledge is of no use unless it is actually in your mind, so that it can be produced at a moment's notice.

What amazing instruments reside in the three or four pounds between our ears, instruments with greater capacity than a thousand busy New York City switchboards.

Intelligent people, Achamian had found, were typically less happy. The reason for this was simple: they were better able to rationalize their delusions. The ability to stomach Truth had little to do with intelligence—nothing, in fact. The intellect was far better at arguing away truths than at finding them.

I noticed, but I didn't pay attention.

I KNOW! Your name is Beckham, isn't it?

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