Quotes About Cognition

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Our intelligence may seem to be the flaw in the machine, but strictly speaking the flaw is our inability to use it properly.

One just has to be observant, because when we deal with the every day we usually see, but we fail to notice.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

Conscious thoughts, repeated often enough, become unconscious thinking.

Your brain and body don't know the difference between having an actual experience in your life and just thinking about the experience—neurochemically, it's the same.

We are creatures of habit. We think somewhere between 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts in one day,1 and 90 percent of those thoughts are exactly the same ones we had the day before.

Thought Alone Can Trigger the Human Stress Response— and Keep It Going

Does the brain see or do the eyes see? If the brain sees, then we can only perceive reality based on what we have wired into our brain.

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If you string a group of related beliefs together, they form your perception. So your perception of reality is a sustained state of being that's based on your long-standing beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, and feelings.

Familiar Memories "Re-mind" Us to Reproduce the Same Experiences

Las lesiones cerebrales pueden arruinarnos la vida. El alcohol no es sano, lo demuestran las lesiones graves que se aprecian en las imágenes de SPECT. Algunos medicamentos que solemos tomar, como los ansiolíticos comunes, no son buenos para el cerebro. Enfermedades como el Alzheimer empiezan en el cerebro décadas antes de manifestarse los síntomas.

It's your frontal lobe that changes your mind—that is, it makes the brain work in different sequences, patterns, and combinations.

The conscious mind is where we store our explicit, or declarative, memories. Therefore, declarative memories are memories that we can declare. They're the knowledge we've learned (termed semantic memories) and experiences we've had in this lifetime (episodic memories).

We think somewhere between 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts in one day,1 and 90 percent of those thoughts are exactly the same ones we had the day before.

Jude wondered if the chip was smart enough to tell the difference between a dog and a naked psychotic scrambling around on all fours with a knife in his teeth.

Because the neocortex (the thinking brain) is capable of dishonesty, it is not a good source of reliable or accurate information (Ost, 2006, 259

Inside his head, a brain cell used a stepladder to find a high-shelved thought.

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physical exercise retards brain deterioration.

Intelligence and feeling are two different things.