Quotes About Intelligence

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

Intelligence and understanding started as a memory system that fed predictions into the sensory system. These predictions are the essense of understanding. To know something means that you can make predictions about it.

Being human and being intelligent are separate matters.

We are intelligent not because we can do one thing particularly well, but because we can learn to do practically anything.

You can't simulate a brain without first understanding what it does.

With each movement, the neocortex predicts what the next sensation will be.

The choice we face as we think about the future is, should we continue to be driven by our biological past or choose instead to embrace our newly emerged intelligence? We may not be able to do both.

Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer. "I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

But do I have "low intelligence"?

pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.

She tucked her chin to her chest and looked at me like I was a Neanderthal. Except I remembered that scientists had recently discovered that Neanderthals were actually probably capable of complex thought and communication so that analogy wouldn't work anymore.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

A whale can injure another whale with its sonar. A whale can speak to another whale across sixty miles of ocean. A whale is as intelligent as we are, just in a way we can't quite measure or understand. Because we're these incredibly blunt instruments.

Borne made me happy, but happiness never made anyone less stupid

You're going to have to get much smarter very quickly.

I did call you a pair of overdeveloped, single-cell Cro-Magnons." "Did you?" "Well I have now." "Nobody calls me an overdeveloped, single-bell crow magnet." "No. I bet nobody does.

Ionako ne postoji oskudica u osrednjim glavama.

Denn schließlich ist man nicht verpflichtet auf die Dummheiten jedes Passanten einzugehen. Sich in reden zu verlieren ist die größte Gefahr die einen Gelehrten bedroht.

Some guys actually like it when a woman's brain is as full as her bra.

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker, he continued, as though he had not heard her. We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.