Quotes About Cognition

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love and anger.

The Cognitive Revolution is accordingly the point when history declared its independence from biology.

fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore the unique abilities of other creatures.

Legends, myths, gods and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution. Many animals and human species could previously say, 'Careful! A lion!' Thanks to the Cognitive Revolution, Homo sapiens acquired the ability to say, 'The lion is the guardian spirit of our tribe.' This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.

The second cognitive revolution, dreamed up by techno-humanists, might do the same to us, producing human cogs who communicate and process data far more effectively than ever before, but who can hardly pay attention, dream or doubt. For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.

we all know that the brain's retrieval system is amazingly efficient, except when you are trying to remember where you put your car keys.

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Legends, myths, gods and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution.

Just as the spectrums of light and sound are far broader than what we humans can see and hear, so the spectrum of mental states is far larger than what the average human perceives.

zipper's operation. Most people had no idea.2 This is what Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach have termed "the knowledge illusion." We think we know a lot, even though individually we know very little, because we treat knowledge in the minds of others as if it were our own.

When you force yourself to laugh, you use different brain circuits and muscles than when you laugh because something is really funny. Humans cannot usually detect the difference. But a biometric sensor could.9

The study of the human mind has so far assumed that Homo sapiens is Homer Simpson.

Until the Cognitive Revolution, the doings of all human species belonged to the realm of biology, or, if you so prefer, prehistory

Los científicos no saben cómo un conjunto de señales eléctricas en el cerebro crea experiencias subjetivas. Y, lo que es más importante, tampoco saben cuál podría ser el beneficio evolutivo de semejante fenómeno. Es la mayor laguna en nuestra comprensión de la vida.

Humans have two types of abilities – physical and cognitive. In the past, machines competed with humans mainly in raw physical abilities, while humans retained an immense edge over machines in cognition. Hence as manual jobs in agriculture and industry were automated, new service jobs emerged that required the kind of cognitive skills only humans possessed: learning, analysing, communicating and above all understanding human emotions.

The fact is that a jumbo brain is a jumbo drain on the body. It's not easy to carry around, especially when encased inside a massive skull. It's even harder to fuel. In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body's energy when the body is at rest.

they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Truth is what you think, not what you find.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

There are only two kinds of thoughts you can have, memories and imaginings.

uno no puede recordar lo que nunca ha aprendido.

The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read.