6 Quotes by Rodolfo Llinas

En realidad, ver, oír y sentir son propiedades del cerebro que los sentidos limitan y ordenan. De allí podemos vislumbrar dos planteamientos esenciales: cómo es que pensamos y qué es ser conscientes, y la única manera de entender el mundo en que vivimos es que empecemos por fin a entendernos a nosotros mismos. (Gabriel García Márquez - prólogo literario)

Some people prefer to see the game in the television than to go to the stadium. With virtual reality this will go to be worse, but at the end the “real” reality will win, because a virtual meal is not the same thing as a real one!

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don’t. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.

The Neurosciences do not exist exclusively to understand man’s nature. They also serve a social function, such as in the treatment of the cerebral diseases or when helping us to have a more pleasant and constructive life. It is a thing that one could explore well.

Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.