Cognitive Quotes
Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.
One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.
Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?
Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.
It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.
The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They mold her desires and values.
We must realise that cognitive hygiene is as important subject as oral hygiene for healthy and happy existence.
Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.
Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.
Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?
There are, in fact, a cognitive itchand a divination using the human formwhile being alive, when life is not alive in its own senseexcept for the eternity.
Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.