Quotes About Mental

Are we open-minded enough to assume that other species have a mental life? Are we creative enough to investigate it? Can we tease apart the roles of attention, motivation, and cognition? Those three are involved in everything animals do; hence poor performance can be explained by any one of them.

Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.

if two closely related species act the same under similar circumstances, the mental processes behind their behavior are likely the same, too. The alternative would be to postulate that, in the short time since they diverged, both species evolved different ways of generating the same behavior.

Emotions belong as much to the body as to the mind.

what else is cognition but information processing? Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.

In fact, it has been proposed that absolute neuron count, regardless of brain or body size, best predicts a species' mental powers.61

Ironically, the study of animal cognition not only raises the esteem in which we hold other species, but also teaches us not to overestimate our own mental complexity. We

Para sobrellevar la pérdida, y aliviar nuestro propio terror a la mortalidad, a menudo contemplamos la muerte como una transición a otra vida. No tenemos evidencia de esta notable innovación mental en ningún otro animal.

Charles Darwin's well-known observation that the mental difference between humans and other animals is one of degree rather than kind.

All mental phenomena have in common, "that they are only perceived in inner consciousness, while in the case of physical phenomena only external perception is possible.

As a science, I should say that chart reading shares a pedestal with astrology; but most chart readers are educated men and have too much mental discipline to take astrology seriously.

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Sometimes the hardest battle only exists within yourself, our mind fighting amongst the demons of thought within our own head.

Sometimes the hardest battles only exists within ourselves, our mind fighting amongst the demons of thought within our own head.

All boys belong in insane asylums.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

You aren't insane, then." "Heavens no," I said. I eyed her. "You don't accept that." You see people that aren't there Mr. Leeds. It's a difficult fact to get around. "And, yet, I live a good life," I said. "Tell me. Why would you consider me insane, but the man who can't hold a job, who cheats on his wife, who can't keep his temper in check, you call him sane?

Normal people did not hear voices. Zane did. He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Okay, I could deal with this. I could accept this. Deal with this, brain!

Worry has weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource. One might say worries are the only things you can make heavier simply by thinking about them.

Keeping track of forty-seven hallucinations is tough enough. If I had to imagine their in-laws too, I just might end up going crazy.