Neuroscience Quotes

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to gene...

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no powe...

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a s...

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, ou...

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundam...

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world,...

our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog il...

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Educated people, of course, know that perception, cognition, language, and emotion are rooted in the...

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never gu...

With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul o...

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, d...

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an ...

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming to...