Quotes About Cognition

High cognitive friction polarizes people into two groups. It either makes them feel frustrated and stupid for failing, or giddy with power at overcoming the extreme difficulty. These powerful emotions force people into being either an "apologist" or a "survivor." They either adopt cognitive friction as a lifestyle, or they go underground and accept it as a necessary evil. The polarization is growing acute.

Interaction design isn't merely a matter of aesthetic choice; rather, it is based on an understanding of users and cognitive principles.

People don't need to know all the details of how a complex mechanism actually works in order to use it, so they create a cognitive shorthand for explaining it. This explanation is powerful enough to cover their interactions with it but doesn't necessarily reflect its actual inner mechanics.

knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

Evolution stops at the neck.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

To say that a belief is rational is to talk about how it stands in relation to other beliefs

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

I've always found that I personally love to observe things, and I'm good at observing things.

Philosophy is for the few.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

I have a photographic memory.

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in the person without autism the brain may have to set aside its picture of the whole to analyze the detail.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.