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• The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the… — Alfred North Whitehead
• The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate… — John Eliot
• I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the… — David Chalmers
• Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are… — Garry Kasparov
• The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact,… — Eric Jensen
• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled… — William Allan
• True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal… — Mark Thomas
• An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from… — Niels Kaj Jerne
• Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility… — Daniel Levitin
• Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is… — Will Eisner
• Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era… — Judith S. Beck
• Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an… — Unknown Author

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