Quotes About Cognition

Well, in one sense, I can't know what it is that I don't know. That's philosophically self-evident.

as for knowing your own mind, this seemed a bewildering process. How could you know your own mind without using your mind to discover your mind in the first place?

My name is Stuart, and I remember everything.

Constantly he went back over the evidence of his memories.

what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

This last isn't something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

This last isn't something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Memory sorts and sifts according to the demands made on it by the rememberer.

For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of a much more recent origin than has heretofore been supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

the biggest lie people tell themselves is that they prefer to know the truth.

We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.

No somos tan insensibles como para confundir los hombres vivos y los hombres ya procesados en rebanadas y salchichas.

There was no way to actually confirm that his body existed as a body. His cognitive abilities may have convinced him that it did, but there was always the possibility that reality was empty.

He didn't believe animals could think, not in the way he defined the term, but he wasn't much impressed with human thinking, either. He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

Proactive interference," Paul would have explained. "It's when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is of particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that which is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.