Brain Quote by William S. Burroughs

“we have a plastic brain that changes in response to our experience. It bears repeating: The brain doesn’t tell us what to do; it…

— Richard O'Connor

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

— Vsevolod Pudovkin

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of…

— Douglas Hofstadter

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it…

— Maryanne Wolf

“But all this doesn´t happen effortlessly, as demonstrated by patients who surgically recover their eyesight after decades of blindless: they do not suddenly see…

— David Eagleman

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In the dark places of yourself, thinking machines you never get near enough to see are constantly building things and running their own secretive…

— Steven Hall

The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time…

— Paul Davies

“We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think”

— António R. Damásio

We are not thinking machines.

— Peter Watts

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking…

— Seth Shostak

“Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at…

— Kevin Kelly