Quotes About Cognition

Within the human brain (and only the human brain), there exist specific structures responsible for the generation of our language capacities.

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

That's the thing I hate most about my brain, the way it stores and catalogs things, all this dumb shit on a giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like a crazy person.

We define empathy here as the ability to enter into affective resonance with the other's feelings and to become cognitively aware of his situation. Empathy alerts us in particular to the nature and intensity of the sufferings experienced by the other. One could say that it catalyzes the transformation of altruistic love into compassion.

It is also important to consider the cognitive aspect of compassion, in other words understanding the different levels of suffering and its manifest or latent causes. We will be able thus to place ourselves in the service of others by helping them effectively while still preserving our inner strength, our kindness, and our inner peace.

How do we know that it refers to the past? That is the real problem of memory.

Nothing is more difficult than to know precisely what we see.

To think is not having but not having.

The origin of language is mythic; that is, there is always a language before language, which is perception.

N)o explanatory hypothesis is more clear than the very act by which we take up this incomplete world in order to attempt to totalize it and to think it.

The living physiology of the nervous system can only be understood by starting from phenomenal givens.

To think: to encircle an unthought.

The unconscious: excess of the perceptual over the notional.

Alg?m görsel, dokunsal ve i?itsel verilerin toplam? de?ildir. Bütün varl???mla, bütünlüklü bir ?ekilde alg?alr?m: Ayn? anda tüm duygular?ma konu?an biricik bir yap?y?, biricik bir varl?k biçimini kavrar?m.

The contact with the perceived is not ignorance and is not knowledge.

Until three months, the infant does not have the concept of his own body but only an impression of incompleteness.

All vision, no matter what color it may be, is a kind of thoughtscreen (which allows for the overflowing of other thoughts)-- Vorhabe and sedimentation.

All knowledge is established within the horizons opened up by perception.

Deepen the notion of gnosia through that of praxia. It's a matter of grasping mind in its nascent state.

Far from being limited to the first years, language acquisition is coextensive with the very exercise of language.

Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory

The perception of forms, understood very broadly as structure, grouping, or configuration should be considered our spontaneous way of seeing.

Prior to stimuli and sensory contents, we must recognize a kind of inner diaphragm which determines, infinitely more than they do, what our reflexes and perceptions will be able to aim at in the world, the area of our possible operations, the scope of our life.