Quotes About Cognition

when you didn't know what you didn't know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

could cite endless studies, but let me finish by quoting Nicholas Carr. His book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, came out back in 2011.

It never ceased to amaze him the power of the sex drive. No matter how intelligent and rational a person was otherwise, the sex drive was controlled by more primitive regions, and could turn the most brilliant man on Earth into an animal, flirting with disaster in pursuit of physical gratification, even when he knew in his rational mind that this was nothing but a trick played on him by his incorrigible limbic system. Walsh entered

It never ceased to amaze him the power of the sex drive. No matter how intelligent and rational a person was otherwise, the sex drive was controlled by more primitive regions, and could turn the most brilliant man on Earth into an animal, flirting with disaster in pursuit of physical gratification, even when he knew in his rational mind that this was nothing but a trick played on him by his incorrigible limbic system.

minds had not only detected this subtle sign of arousal," she continued, "but had known it for what it was. And had even managed

talked to himself under his breath fairly frequently, and often couldn't remember where he had left stuff, as though his mind was too powerful to dwell on the mundane.

Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.

we know that decision makers will experience an increase in confidence in their decisions even when the analysis or information-gathering methods are found to be ineffectual. This is part of what Dawes called the "illusion of learning.

When presented new information, we have no other option than to relate it to what we already know—there is no blank space in our minds within which new information can be stored so as not to "contaminate" it with existing information. —Clifford Konold, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University of Massachusetts

Information can get from a professors lecture notes and into a student's notebook without passing through the mind of either.

he hardly knew any facts and was thus having trouble sticking to them.

The conscious is a theatre with a single seat...

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

En un experimento publicado en la década de los 80´s, el autor de esta obra y E. Roy Jonh del Brain Research Laboratory de la ciudad de Nueva York, demostramos que las expectativas que un sujeto tiene acerca de la realidad que percibe determinan cambios en su actividad cerebral acordes con las expectativas (las descripciones y estructuras conceptuales que posee) y no con la Realidad.

Cualquier distorsión que el cerebro es capaz de imprimir en la lattice y el hipercampo es una manifestación de poder, desde las que activan las imágenes visuales hasta las que modifican el factor de direccionalidad colectivo.

Men's brains may be bigger, but women's contain more brain cells. Also, male and female brains work differently. When men and women perform identical tasks, different areas of their brains light up in response. In addition, females use both hemispheres, while male brain activity is restricted to one side. (21)

Ludwig Wittgenstein: «Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo».

For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.

We can all read a book and still not understand it.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

I practice in my head.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.