All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once. — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is a neuron in your brain that will respond only to pictures of Jennifer Aniston - provided you have had prior… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. — Jeremy Bernstein Copy Share Image
In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad'… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
