“Hallucinogens affect the neocortex, and my neocortex wasn’t available to be affected.” — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“People who are very Tuned In to context tend to have strong connections from the hippocampus to areas in the prefrontal cortex… — Richard J. Davidson Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how big your neocortex is or how abstractly you can reason: unless you can trust others, your species will… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
“In any situation where our brains perceive extreme threat, the neocortex (the most recently evolved layer of the brain, which performs logical… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
“The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Our neocortex has made us meaning-seeking creatures, acutely aware of the perplexity and tragedy of our predicament, and if we do not… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Electronic circuits are millions of times faster than our biological circuits. At first we will have to devote all of this speed… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
