Quotes About Cognition

The common saying is "I'll believe it when I see it," but human perception is more accurately characterized as "I'll see it when I believe it." In international politics where expectations of hostility are common, the results are often unfortunate.

Cognitive mapping and processing are aimed at self-preservation through the reduction of helplessness, terror, and pervasive anxiety. They are introduced and sustained by our first two model components, ineffective social environment and unresolved traumatic formative events, and become established in the patterned responses.

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

We see what we want to believe.

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the conscious self doesn't create thoughts; it receives them.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

the mind truly is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.

The human mind is the world's largest filtering device. When used properly it filters out what you perceive as unimportant and gives you only the information you are looking for at that time. At

The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers

the prefrontal cortex developed. This is the part of our brain responsible for higher thinking.

on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through his mind. What really amazed me, though, was that ninety-five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones you thought the day before!

The mind is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.

On an average day, the average person thinks about 60,000 thoughts. Even more startling is the fact that 95% of those thoughts are the same as the ones you thought the day before.

You can remember anything if you try hard enough.

The uncertainty of our senses makes uncertain all that they produce:

It is said that the human brain divides its functions. The right brain is devoted to sensory impressions, emotions, colors, music. The left brain deals with abstract thought, logic, philosophy, analysis. My definition of a great movie: While you're watching it, it engages your right brain. When it's over, it engages your left brain.

Thus, Godel appears to have taken it as evident that the physical brain must itself behave computationally, but that the mind is something beyond the brain, so that the mind's action is not constrained to behave according to the computational laws that he believed must control the physical brain's behavior.

Judgement requires, then, the joint operation of sensibility and understanding. A mind without concepts would have no capacity to think; equally, a mind armed with concepts, but with no sensory data to which they could be applied, would have nothing to think about.

anamnesis: the bringing to consciousness of forgotten things.