Accommodations Quote by Jean Piaget

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework…

— Charlie Munger

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“The valuable capacity of the human mind to simplify a complex situation in a compact characterization becomes dangerous when not controlled in terms of…

— Sidin Vadukut

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in…

— Herbert Marcuse

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The whole architecture of the notions of psychology... as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh ...There is…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.

— Peter Senge

“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into…

— Gene Wolfe

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

— Marvin Minsky

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

— Robert Breault

“...when the brain is released from the constraints of reality, it can generate any sound, image, or smell in its repertoire, sometimes in complex…

— Oliver Sacks

It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not…

— Richard Matheson