“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes.… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to overstate the importance of understanding mirror neurons and their function. They may well be central to social learning,… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
“There must be some supreme creative energy, he thought, that can take love and turn it into synapses and then take a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
“[K]eep in mind the big picture, the 1,000-foot view. See the impermanence of whatever is at issue, and the many causes and… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
It is especially important for managers to know about, neuroplasticity, the greatest discovery in neuroscience in the past 20 years. It refers… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
“Too must sentiment and no reason, destroys both the path and the pedestrian.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain… — Sabina Magliocco Copy Share Image
“Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Taking in the good is not about putting a happy shiny face on everything, nor is it about turning away from the… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I find especially worrisome is the propensity for people to perceive reality as dyadic, comprised of two… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image