“Conscious access is also the gateway to more complex forms of conscious experience. In everyday language, we often conflate our Consciousness with our sense of self-how the brain creates a point of view, an "I" that looks at its surroundings… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“The notion that the world is mostly made up of small sets is an illusion imposed on us by our perceptual and cognitive systems.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“An innate sense of approximate numerical quantities may well be embedded in our genes; but when faced with exact symbolic calculation, we lack proper resources. Our brain has to tinker with alternate circuits in order to make up for the lack of a cerebral organ specifically designed for calculation. This tinkering takes a heavy toll. Loss of speed, increased concentration,… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share
“These three ingredients—focusing on conscious access, manipulating conscious perception, and carefully recording introspection—have transformed the study of consciousness into a normal experimental science.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“...the opacity of a numeration system takes an important toll on language acquisition.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“By definition, we have no access to our many unconscious processes—but this does not prevent us from making up stories about them. For instance, many people think that when they read a word, they recognize it instantaneously and “as a whole,” based on its overall shape; but actually a sophisticated series of letter-based analyses occurs in their brain, of which… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share
“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“A stream of symbols appears at the same location on a computer screen. Most of the symbols are digits, but some are letters, which… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“...numbers rule our lives. Indeed, they lie at the heart of our technology.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“In many experiments, the boundary between seeing and not seeing is relatively sharp: an image is downright invisible when presented for 40 milliseconds, but… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide to focus… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“An important consequence of these observations is that our consciousness of unexpected events lags considerably behind the real world. Not only do we consciously… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“In point of fact, the greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery. —Vladimir” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
