Quotes About Brain

But what if this logical leap--these stressful things happened, and therefore life is crazy and unsustainable--limits our stories? The human brain is structured for loss aversion, and so negative moments stand out more starkly than positive moments, particularly if they fit a popular thesis.

Second, we need to savor moments as they come. A lot of time and life management is mental. The human brain easily wanders and it wanders more to worries than to happy musings on what a blessed life you have. Such ruminations steal happiness.

All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom

I found some way to recovery. But I know, have always known, that I could go back. Mysterious neurons collide and break. The brain bruises. Memories you thought were buried rise up.

The human brain literally became able to draw down the fire from heaven, in other words, to snatch a portion of Divine energy. This Divine energy had existed since the time when the Divinity convulsed in the cosmic orgasm call the big bang. The 'fluids' released in this energetic discharge were able to balance, or neutralize, the charge between heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, the two hemispheres of our brain have become separated and no longer function as a holistic gestalt.

Therefore, they [archons] meddle with human beings, inserting deviant thoughts into their minds, They are influence peddlers, a type of non-physical implant, a foreign installation in the brain, from which they launch their mind-control system.

the brain reads the state of the body and makes fine adjustments, even while it reads the environment and directs the body in reacting to it. In addition, that process continually reshapes the brain by making new connections. All of this is aimed at one thing only: adaptation, which is another word for survival.

As an eminent neuroscientist, Damasio is as qualified as anyone to define the brain, and he calls it an "'organ' of information and government.

Deprivation and attachment difficulties signal the baby's brain and nervous system to implement life-protecting strategies. Depending on the severity and the duration of the nurturing disruptions, there is a progressive loss of the ability to attune to and express one's needs. Along with the loss of attunement comes increasing autonomic dysregulation:

His brain is like a big dog penned in his skull, restless and pacing, aching for a run.

Concepts and patterns that your brain is sorting through and making sense of are much more scalable and universal than any specific vendor's technology

Neurodiversity? Indeed. According to The New York Times: "As psychiatrists and neurologists uncover an ever-wider variety of brain wiring," a new kind of disability movement, calling for an acceptance of neurodiversity, has been born. Proponents of neurodiversity argue that "brain differences, like body differences, should be embraced," and appeal for a neurologically tolerant society.76

So bleary with jet lag that she could not sleep or make any sense in conversation, and feeling that her brain was a haunted house in which bats flew randomly from one attic beam to another

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.

I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner.

The brain remembers and recalls everything that's happened to us, something that comes out under hypnosis and brain stimulation. While we may not immediately recall some bit of information, that particular memory isn't lost; it's merely inaccessible and may be triggered later by some sight, smell, sound, or other stimulus.

[I]f I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

...the sexual organs show more character than the actors' faces... There are phalluses in porno whose distended veins speak of the integrity of the hardworking heart, but there is so little specific content in the faces! Hard core lulls after it excites, and finally it puts the brain to sleep.

Potente Gehirne stärken sich nicht durch Milch, sondern durch Alkaloide.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its "surroundings" in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. "Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.