42 Quotes About Cognitive-science

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.

Much of what is considered problematic in the world has more to do with thoughts and derivatives from thoughts than with the physics of it all

Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.

The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day.

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know, perceive and solve problems; it involves finding out tow hat extent the world outside us is knowable by us, and indeed prescribing the limits of inquiry for disciplines like Physics which claim to afford knowledge of the external physical world.

Sexual thoughts float through a man’s brain many times a day, while on the contrary a woman has them only one to four times a day.

When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into students’ heads. What if, instead, we focus on getting information out of students’ heads?