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Brain Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs…
- Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution
- We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.
- It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig…
- It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the…
- All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
- The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.
- Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the…
- But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
- Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions…
- No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by…
- Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is…
- The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis.…
- Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is…
- Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a…
- Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is…
- The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a…
- All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.
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