“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“psychology, and medicine. Accounts of scientific lives in neuroscience” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery,… — 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
“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends,… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“What we value so much, the altruistic “good” side of human nature, can also have a dark side. Altruism can be the… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
“The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“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
“With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“When people have trouble with their emotions – a bout of anxiety or depression, say, or seasonal gloominess - they often want… — Thomas Lewis 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
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“AI - The Whole Picture In medicine, we have a condition called oxygen toxicity, which means, even oxygen can do harm if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but… — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is the product of electrochemical signalling in the neurons of your brain. So when the brain stops functioning fully, your consciousness,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“We became an intelligent species by solving problems, and now that we are entering a technological era where we no longer need… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like… — Matt Haig 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
“The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
There are things that neuroscience is useful for in terms of understanding behavior, but there are also things it is not all… — Alissa Quart 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
“An autistic's default mode network, or how noisy or active a brain is when it's at rest, is 42% higher than that… — Sol Smith 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
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment,… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
“Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
