Activity Quote by Richard Restak

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

— David Eagleman

Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.

— Deepak Chopra

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

— Miguel Nicolelis

“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

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

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

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 brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.”

— David DiSalvo

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 brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do…

— John Medina

Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition,…

— John O'Keefe

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms…

— Francisco Varela

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas…

— Oliver Sacks