Neuroscience Quotes
Neuroscience Quote of the day
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.
The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.
I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.
The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world, it's like a line painted on the sidewalk.
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.
The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons.
Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.
Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.
Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.
Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.
...we are a narrative, storytelling species. Revealing our own histories, and understanding those of others can really help us appreciate the humanity in all of our fellow individuals.
You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.
Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well.
Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.
A healthy brain leads to a healthy you.
God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.
The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you’ll have of that situation in the long run.
All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.
In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.
I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.
Angelo, " he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.
Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.
Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.
A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
Practice creates more connections among the neurons, which push you a little further towards perfection.