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"We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually."
Madeleine L'Engle
"We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually."
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"When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person."
Daniel Goleman
"When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person."
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"The mind is a neural computer."
Steven Pinker
"The mind is a neural computer."
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"One lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity."
Darrell Calkins
"One lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity."
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"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."
George Eliot
"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."
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"Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our brains do not have answers, our minds will create them."
David W. Earle
"Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our brains do not have answers, our minds will create them."
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"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."
Arthur C. Clarke
"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."
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"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
Jorge Luis Borges
"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
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"A single thought can shift your entire world."
Alaric Hutchinson
"A single thought can shift your entire world."
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"The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality."
Wayne Gerard Trotman
"The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality."
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"The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs."
Abhijit Naskar
"The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs."
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"The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day."
Abhijit Naskar
"The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day."
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"You cannot solve a level four problem with level one thinking."
R. A. Delmonico
"You cannot solve a level four problem with level one thinking."
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"You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal, you tune in different frequencies."
Chris Prentiss
"You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal, you tune in different frequencies."
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"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."
Rainbow Rowell
"Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them."
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"Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous."
Rajen Jani
"Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous."
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"A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer."
Chris Prentiss
"A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer."
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"When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure."
Chris Prentiss
"When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure."
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