--- title: "7 Brain Experience Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Brain Experience quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Brain Experience sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/thomas-metzinger-13958_brain_one-of-the-interesting-characteristics-o_605591.png" --- > [One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-metzinger/one-of-the-interesting-characteristics-of-the-ego-tunnel-is-that-it/) [Thomas Metzinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-metzinger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/thomas-metzinger-13958_brain_one-of-the-interesting-characteristics-o_605591.png) > [You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fiona-apple/you-can-live-your-whole-life-in-your-brain-and-not-experience-what-s/) [Fiona Apple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fiona-apple/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a3/fiona-apple-1912_brain_you-can-live-your-whole-life-in-your-bra_1557713.png) > [Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maharishi-mahesh-yogi/through-transcendental-meditation-the-human-brain-can-experience-that/) [Maharishi Mahesh Yogi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maharishi-mahesh-yogi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-1567_bliss_through-transcendental-meditation-the-hu_1822175.jpg) > [You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fiona-apple/you-can-live-your-whole-life-in-your-brain-and-not-experience-what-s-2/) [Fiona Apple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fiona-apple/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/fiona-apple-1912_around_you-can-live-your-whole-life-in-your-bra_2293381.png) > [How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/how-is-it-possible-that-a-being-with-such-sensitive-jewels-as-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/alan-watts-587_brain_how-is-it-possible-that-a-being-with-suc_2772473.jpg) > [“As it is, we are merely bolting our lives—gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in—because awareness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-wilson-watts/as-it-is-we-are-merely-bolting-our-lives-gulping-down-undigested/) [Alan Wilson Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-wilson-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/alan-wilson-watts-4665_existence_as-it-is-we-are-merely-bolting-our-lives_3107057.jpg) > [The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henepola-gunaratana/the-brain-does-not-manufacture-thoughts-unless-we-stimulate-it-with/) [Henepola Gunaratana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henepola-gunaratana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/henepola-gunaratana-10550_brain_the-brain-does-not-manufacture-thoughts_3165174.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brain-experience/#itemlist", "name": "Brain Experience Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust \"out-of-the brain experience\", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Metzinger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-metzinger/one-of-the-interesting-characteristics-of-the-ego-tunnel-is-that-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/thomas-metzinger-13958_brain_one-of-the-interesting-characteristics-o_605591.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/thomas-metzinger-13958_brain_one-of-the-interesting-characteristics-o_605591.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/thomas-metzinger-13958_brain_one-of-the-interesting-characteristics-o_605591.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti…” — Thomas Metzinger", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. 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If I ask you what you did, saw, heard, smelled, touched and tasted yesterday, I am likely to get nothing more than the thin, sketchy outline of the few things that you noticed, and of those only what you thought worth remembering. Is it surprising that an existence so experienced seems so empty and bare that its hunger for an infinite future is insatiable? But suppose you could answer, “It would take me forever to tell you, and I am much too interested in what’s happening now.” How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god? 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