Quotes About Cognition

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything.

Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known.

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

If you don't work your brain turns to cheese.

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

Leave us do the thinking sweetheart. It takes equipment.

Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

Gonzalez adds, "Researchers point out that people tend to take any information as confirmation of their mental models. We are by nature optimists, if optimism means that we believe we see the world as it is. And under the influence of a plan, it's easy to see what we want to see.

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable.

Cognitive theorists have a term for what Eve just experienced. They call it her Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device, or HADD. This is a biological process that arose deep in our evolutionary past, all the way back in the days when hominids were still stooped and hairy. In its simplest terms, HADD leads us to detect human agency, and hence a human cause, behind any unexplained event: a distant sound in the woods, a flash of light in the sky, a tendril of fog slithering along the ground.

Cómo podía ser que nadie comprendiera? se había preguntado Tardewski. ¿O sólo leemos lo que ya hemos leído, una y otra vez, para buscar en las palabras lo que sabemos que está en ellas, sin que sorpresa alguna pueda variar el sentido?

Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.

Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;

We needn't bother with exactly what 'electric charge' means here.