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Cognition Quotes
"The mind is a neural computer."
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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."
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"The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality."
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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."
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"A single thought can shift your entire world."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer."
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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."
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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."
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