Quotes About Cognition

Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights

Cambridge, through a long series of studies, have shown that birds can store food of different kinds in hundreds of distinct places to retrieve later, and can remember not only where they have put food but what was put in each place, so the more perishable items can be retrieved before the longer-lasting ones.

seems plausible that an animal might feel pain or thirst without having an "inner model" of the world

With an influx of sensory information comes a need for complex internal processing. When more is known, decisions become more complicated.

No habrá concluido su tarea hasta que digan «¡Ajá! ¡Ya lo entiendo!»

Psychologists call this sort of mental mechanism, in which beliefs conform to behavior rather than the other way around, a response to "cognitive dissonance,

That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it in an even more palatable way - the way we would have liked things to have been, rather than the way they really are.

Media are epistemologies. Every medium implies a particular way of thinking about things, influences to great extent what things we will think about, and how we will think about them.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.