Quotes About Mind

Hard science fiction. Mind-blowing, breathtaking, hard science fiction.

schizophrenia and had developed a split personality

Let's just say I hope the soul is inherent in the complexity of the infinitely grand workings of the human brain. And that no matter where the mind is housed, the soul will follow.

Human evolution favors anxiety over happiness.

Microtubules are the key ingredient for human consciousness, and are able to exhibit quantum effects. Even in the warm, wet, and noisy environment of the brain.

Telepathy must somehow travel through four dimensions, so the signal can remain strong, taking a shortcut through vast 3D distances.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye." —Shana Alexander

When you have to do an activity consciously, you are slow and inefficient. Unconscious subroutines programmed in are just the opposite, fast and efficient. But in many cases, learned activities that become part of your unconscious wiring can no longer be accessed by your conscious mind.

Contrary to fiction, you can't hypnotize someone to commit armed robbery, or jump off a building, against their will. A person can only be hypnotized to do something they would already be willing to do otherwise. Same with this. We can strengthen a tendency, put a thought into your sleeping head, but it can't contradict how you feel consciously.

Douglas E. Richards

Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long," said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.

The more intellect you bring to bear on the question, with faith out of the picture, the more certain you become that God is just a construct of the human mind, nothing more." Desh

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.

If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn't the universe require consciousness to even exist?

many believe that consciousness itself is a quantum effect.

It is a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." —The White Queen, Alice in Wonderland

Consciousness is a quantum effect. Even your scientists have begun to realize this.

mind is pretty miraculous. Who knows, perhaps

Perhaps the most critical point—and the one hardest to keep clearly in mind—is that help is always defined by the recipient. Taking an action with respect to someone because "it is best for him," or because "it is for the good of the organization," may be influencing him, but it is not providing help unless he so perceives it. Headquarters

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.

This "out of sight, out of mind" externalization of poverty and poison doesn't go away just because we've covered our eyes with VR goggles and immersed ourselves in an alternate reality.

And thinking is not like a book you can pick up when you want to, in your own time.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. —Aristotle (384 b.c.–322 b.c.)