Absorption Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship…

— Tony Hoare

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Every moment there is a divinely inspired, infinitely powerful explosion of light-filled possibilities occurring inside your brain.

— Anonymous

The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to…

— Ellen Meloy

“Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions…

— David Eagleman

Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness…

— Roger Penrose

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural…

— Rudy Rucker

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

— David Eagleman

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

— Paul Allen

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

— Isaac Newton

“A pair of eyes attached to a human brain can quickly make sense of the content presented on a web page and decide whether…

— David Amerland

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply…

— Michael Behe