Attention Quote by Marilyn Ferguson

If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it…

— David Eagleman

“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“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

For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or…

— Eckhart Tolle

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no…

— Carl Sagan

“The brain is the most effective algorithmic compressor of information that we have so far encountered in Nature. It reduces complex sequences of sense…

— John D. Barrow

We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior.…

— Bob Proctor

I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of…

— Daniel Levitin

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

— Nick Morgan

“The Conscious Space Human consciousness is not very big. The conscious space that we use to process information about ourselves and others is only…

— John G. Shobris

The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

— Kwabena Boahen