Brain Quotes - Page 34

• Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

  Patricia Churchland

  Machines

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part of a very complex system. Part of what it does is act in opposition to stress hormones, and in that sense release of oxytocin feels good - as stress hormones and anxiety do not feel good.

  Patricia Churchland

  Stress, Oxytocin, Feel Good

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

  Patricia Churchland

  Doe, World, Steps

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

  Patricia Churchland

  Years, Planets, Humans

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

  David Papineau

  Mind, Identity, Problem

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.

  David Papineau

  Philosophy, Simple, Numbers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Tunnels, Interesting, Ego

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

  Viola Davis

  Daughter, Morning, Heart

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

  Ben Mezrich

  Adventure, Kids, Stories

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sex, Stress, Average

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.

  Meghan Trainor

  Dirty, Firsts, Reeds

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Mind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction.

  Aphex Twin

  People, Work Out, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

  Aphex Twin

  Order, Deals, Physiology

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Differences, Males, Female

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

  John Debney

  Running, Mind, Melody

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• I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor.

  Bernie Siegel

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we do strengthen and become more efficient at things we do a lot of in changed ways of thinking that we might need.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Might, Able

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I like whatever's good. Metal, rock, new or old - I don't care, as long as it does something to my brain.

  Chris Reifert

  Rocks, Long, Doe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

  Jane McGonigal

  Stress, Games, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

  Jane McGonigal

  Real, Games, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

  Ty Segall

  Energy, Records, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

  John Dieterich

  People, Want, Way

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.

  David Pajo

  Song, Blow, Long Ago

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

  Philippa Perry

  Environmental, Pressure, Evolution

  Source: bigthink.com

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