Quotes About Cognition

Originary perception is a non-thetic, pre-objective, and preconscious experience.

The 'unconscious'...is simply the pre-objective, oneiric background of all perception.

Every sensation is already pregnant with a sense.

The unconscious is a perceiving consciousness... it operates as such through a logic of implication or promiscuity,

Consciousness of something is always consciousness of a difference between terms that are not given positively.

In principle, the logician is only familiar with thetic consciousness.

Every perception is the perception of something solely by way of being at the same time the relative imperception of a horizon or background which it implies but does not thematize. Perceptual consciousness is therefore indirect or even inverted in relation to an ideal of adequation which it presumes but never encounters directly.

As the thing, as the other, the true dawns through an emotional and almost carnal experience, where the "ideas"—the other's and our own—are rather traits of his physiognomy and of our own, are less understood than welcomed or spurned in love or hatred.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real experience and one that is vividly imagined.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information that you give to it from your forebrain.

Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Žena zna, žene uvijek znaju, makar ništa ne bilo re?eno, i prije ?e pomisliti da jest nego da nije.

The world is a fiction the brain constructs

The world is a fiction the brain constructs. The smell of a fresh peach, the punch of a firefly in the night sky. The lilting hush-hush of a first lullaby. The brain fashions it all and we don't know how or why.

Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

Some of us are the designated rememberers,

A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics.

the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage.

everything human is human because it is brought about through thinking, and for that reason alone."5

The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior.

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious, while humans are forgetful.