Neuroscience Quotes
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.
In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.
Truth, independent of the Self, is irrelevant to the biological existence of human life.
The human mind has a primordial affinity towards ideas of miracles and mysticism, especially, in times of weakness.
The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks.
Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.
The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.
Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.
Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined.
Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.
Divinity is born from neural processes, not some Supreme Entity.
I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.
A life without having loved someone is a life never lived.
Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.
I wanted to present Neuroscience to people in a way that would diminish their differences.
What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.
When you say to someone "follow your heart", it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system.
One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.
Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind.
The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs.
Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.
The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?
Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life won’t have any significance to you whatsoever.
You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.
As the neurobiology of our species gets more and more complicated, its functional expression, which we call the mind, shall get more vivid and productive.
Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.
It is pretty simple - mind is a part of life - consciousness is a part of mind - God is a part of consciousness.
All human experiences, from the feeling of love, to the presence of God emerge from various brain activity.
Consciousness is simple, if you are bold enough to accept it as simple.
Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.
Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century.
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.
