Quotes About Cognition

Our consciousness can only give us an experience of our thinking.

You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you know you've noticed. Maybe between the first time when you're staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there's a silence. A pause.

Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Conocemos únicamente el producto final de nuestro procesamiento cerebral pero lo confundimos con la Realidad en sí.

La conciencia surge sólo cuando el entender es captar patrones comunes.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

Le langage est, en effet, l'instrument même de la pensée, et le seul moyen de lui donner des contours fermes.

That's why I don't buy it when people say children don't know. That they're too young to understand. If they can walk and talk, they can understand. You look at how much growing a baby does in the first few years of its life—crawling, walking, talking, laughing. The brain just changing and changing. You can't tell me all of it's not becoming a part of their blood. Their memory.

The time for comprehending can be reduced to the instant of the glance, but this glance can include in its instant all the time needed for comprehending.

Books contain nothing, or almost nothing, that's important: everything is in the mind of the person reading them.' If you were trying to find an idiotic remark, that one took the cake!

Le réel doit être fictionné pour être pensé.

Leggere rendendosi conto

La sensibilidad al dolor no tiene nada que ver con entender

Trust your memory. Trust your best thinking. Trust your sense of what is real.

having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois.

she couldn't remember anything after eating her

It was only that his intellect was in such a constant state of multitasking that he seemed to orbit at altitude, separated from those who operated on a more ordinary plane.

The trouble with multitasking. In study after study, researchers have shown that performing multiple tasks at once makes the brain less efficient. Basically, the brain doesn't become proficient at doing multiple tasks, it simply becomes faster at skipping back and forth between them and blocking other information out.

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.

The soul can recall what the mind forgets.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Souvent Me Souvient (Remember Me Often)-The Darwin Conspiracy