Capacity Quote by Gerald Edelman Download Open image “Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.” — Gerald Edelman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Consciousness Philosophy of Mind Plan Plans You
Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe. — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.” — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra -… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
