Quotes About Cognition

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

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.