Quotes About Cognition

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Our capacity for thought is one of humanity's most amazing qualities.

That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But

In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere.

That's what I Am a Strange Loop is about," said Deborah. "It's about how we spend our lives self-referencing, over and over, in a kind of strange loop.

In fact ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere. Everywhere.

I learned, the field of interest was a man from Wales who could recognize all his sheep as individuals but couldn't recognize human faces, not even his wife, not even himself in the mirror.

They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

You can think of me thinking of you, because that's what I'll be doing whenever you think of me.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

What does it remember like?

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Don't you find that strange? I can't believe I never found it strange before. It's like your name, how you don't notice it for so long, but when you finally do, you can't help but say it over and over, and wonder why you never thought it was strange that you should have that name, and that everyone has been calling you that name for you whole life.

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

To see a thing one has to comprehend it. An armchair presupposes the human body, its joints and limbs; a pair of scissors, the act of cutting. What can be said of a lamp or a car? The savage cannot comprehend the missionary's Bible; the passenger does not see the same rigging as the sailors. If we really saw the world, maybe we would understand it.

There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.

La imaginación está hecha de convenciones de la memoria. Si yo no tuviera memoria no podría imaginar.

Mi memoria, señor, es como vaciadero de basuras.

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. - Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote