Cognitive Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“In the twenty-first century it sounds childish to compare the human psyche to a steam engine. Today we know of a far more sophisticated…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

— Robert C. Solomon

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike…

— Gerald Edelman

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

— Timothy Leary

The mind is an evolved computer program.

— Eric Baum

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks…

— Thomas Nagel

But if the brain is not like a computer, then what is it like? What kind of model can we form in regard to…

— Richard Restak

the mind is a neural computer

— Steven Pinker

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

— Siri Hustvedt

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our…

— Eric Kandel

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our…

— Eric Kandel

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

— Sherry Turkle