Quotes About Cognition

I would like to suggest that the overriding belief systems of certain cultures encourage born sociopaths to compensate cognitively for what they are missing emotionally. In contrast with our extreme emphasis on individualism and personal control, certain cultures, many in East Asia, dwell theologically on the interrelatedness of all living things. Interestingly, this value is also the basis of conscience, which is an intervening sense of obligation rooted in a sense of connectedness.

I'm going to mark your cognition level at fifty-five percent." "Fuck you." "Let's make that sixty percent.")

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

I had a complex emotional reaction. A whole new burst of neural connections blossomed. Oh right, I often have complex emotional reactions which I can't easily interpret.

MEMORY is an odd thing. I can always remember to perfection a mass of unimportant details.

Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

only he who already understands can listen

When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

When we read a book, these specialized cells respond as if we are actually doing what the book character is doing."5

Think with your head, not your heart.' He looked

Thinking is good," Uman said. "We like thinking.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Most children suffer from a crippling lack of stimulation. The brain is like any other muscle; use it, and it develops. Ignore it, and it atrophies.

Memory is a funny thing sometimes.

It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

You don't just get it, the way you just get a cold; you take it into your head, consider it as an idea first, play with the behaviors awhile, see if they take root.

WE WERE NEVER BORN TO READ. HUMAN BEINGS invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.