Brain Quote by Gordon Shepherd

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

— Paul Allen

The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you…

— Paul Allen

“We can see how our world is, in many ways, becoming more complex, fast-paced, and unpredictable. As a result, the problems we face are…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

“There is, then, an analogy–and perhaps more than mere analogy–between central vision and conscious, one-at-a-time thinking, and between peripheral vision and the rather mysterious…

— Alan Wilson Watts

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

— Isaac Asimov

“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept depends on…

— Nick Bostrom

It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its…

— Peter Coveney

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

— Gregory Stock

“The cerebral cortex, the outer ‘skin’ of the brain, contains as many as ten billion neurons. This complexity is daunting. Yet it is out…

— James David Lewis-Williams

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models…

— Alexander Tsiaras

“Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity is attained.…

— John D. Barrow

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

— Michael Gazzaniga