Cognitive science Quote by Gerald Edelman

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

— Bernard Beckett

“You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but the context…

— Bernard Beckett

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs…

— Julio Cortazar

“Consciousness is an outcome of a recursively comparative memory in which previous self-nonself categorizations are continually related to ongoing present perceptual categorizations and their…

— Edelman Gerald

“Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.”

— Joseph Goldstein

“It is...difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.…

— Marilynne Robinson

“the mind has deep rivers of memory and sensation whose existence one never suspects.”

— Jim Grimsley

“Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We…

— Virginia Woolf

Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought.

— Giambattista Basile