Quotes About Cognition

I never saw the face of Cobbett...I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.

Lately I had been finding it hard to understand the simplest things people said to me, as if what they were speaking in were a form of language I did not recognise; I would know the words but could not assemble them into sense.

see, hear, etc ………… (senses) I interpret …………… (mind, thinking) I feel …………… (emotions) I want …………… (desires)

The person feels bad and acts upon that feeling as if it were really a fact.

Our mental life is teeming with thoughts, many of them going on unconsciously and automatically.

Happy brains are all alike; every unhappy brain is unhappy in its own way.

Illusions are a necessary consequence of intelligence. Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. Would we be better off without visual illusions? We would in fact be worse off—like a person who never says anything to avoid making any mistakes. A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

Eighty-nine percent of what people learn comes through visual stimulation, 10 percent through audible stimulation, and 1 percent through other senses. So

Only by practicing and developing your thinking daily will your ideas get better. Your thinking ability is determined not by your desire to think, but by your past thinking.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it." Because

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?

Frames of Mind

What is not perceived as such is not perceived at all.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?" I questioned. "That would be almost like being brain dead...

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information