Brain Quote by Jonathan Haidt

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global…

— Sam Harris

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

— Daniel J. Siegel

Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy.

— Deepak Chopra

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve…

— David Abram

Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is…

— Matsuo Basho

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

— Helen Fisher

“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

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence…

— Michael Shermer

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 mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

— Michael Merzenich