Quotes About Cognition

As far as the brain is concerned, neural filtering is taking place in all models, whether they are scientific, spiritual, artistic, or psychotic. The brain is a processor of inputs, not a mirror to reality.

Tu cerebro no puede hacer lo que cree que no puede hacer.

El cerebro forma la imagen de la realidad tal y como ha sido entrenado para hacerlo.

As far as the brain is concerned, neural filtering is taking place in all models, whether they are scientific, spiritual, artistic, or psychotic. The brain is a processor of inputs, not a mirror to reality. If our brains are constantly filtering every experience, there is no way anyone can claim to know what is "really" real. You can't step outside your brain to fathom what lies beyond it.

Tu cerebro no solo interpreta el mundo, lo crea.

Hay un antiguo dicho de la facultad de medicina: las personas utilizan tan solo alrededor de un 10 por ciento de su cerebro. Literalmente, no es cierto. En un adulto sano, las redes neuronales operan al máximo de su capacidad todo el tiempo.

uno no sabe que tiene alzheimer cuando olvida dónde puso las llaves del coche, sino cuando olvida para qué son.

Humans are in the ironic position of knowing for certain that we have a mind, while at the same time finding that our mind can't explain itself.

Your head is a lit chamber.

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

I think, therefore I laugh.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

All our knowledge begins with the senses...

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.