459 Quotes About Neuroscience
- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Spirit can't exist without matter and matter can't grow without spirit.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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The world needs psychological singularity, that is oneness among humans, not some pompous biotechnological singularity.
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- Author Meghan Cox Gurdon
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The act of reading together secures people to one another, creating order and connection, as if we were quilt squares tacked together with threads made of stories. That's not just another metaphor, as a team of neuroscientists at Princeton has discovered. Even as reader and listener are enjoying their bouquet of neurochemicals ... their brain activity is synchronizing, creating literal order and connection in a process known as neural coupling.
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- Author Albert Costa
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The truth is that bilingual babies are like machines.
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- Author István Aranyosi
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Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence of self-conscious states is not a drastic, extravagant, earth-shaking phenomenon.
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- Author Jeff Hawkins
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But intelligence is not just a matter of acting or behaving intelligently. Behavior is a manifestation of intelligence, but not the central characteristic or primary definition of being intelligent. A moment's reflection proves this: You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding. Ignoring what goes on in your head and focusing instead on behavior has been a large impediment to understanding intelligence and building intelligent machines
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- Author Jeff Hawkins
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AI scientists tried to program computers to act like humans without first answering what intelligence is and what it means to understand. They left out the most important part of building intelligent machines, the intelligence! "Real intelligence" makes the point that before we attempt to build intelligent machines, we have to first understand how the brain thinks, and there is nothing artificial about that. Only then can we ask how we can build intelligent machines
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