Human Brain Quotes

“Fear can be a source of facial discrimination because faces, which we are not used to, can be frightening, deviant or weird. Since the human brain permanently processes countenances, it identifies who is who, who is foe, who is friend, and who could constitute an imminent danger. Only, when the mind has become accustomed to the various facial types, people might drop their prejudices and their fear. (- "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He knew what he was experiencing was a basic error in programming, and he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“By protecting our children from adversity, have we made them deathly
afraid of it? By bolstering their self-esteem with false praise and a lack of
real-world consequences, have we made them less tolerant, more entitled,
and ignorant of their own character defects? By giving in to their every
desire, have we encouraged a new age of hedonism?”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions.”
― Petek Kabakci

“Just a dozen of high quality qudits will be sufficient to simulate the state of 100 billion neurons of human brain for quantum machine learning.”
― Amit Ray, Quantum Computing Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence

“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act of reading. Underlying the brain's ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally devoted to other more basic brain processes that have enjoyed a longer existence in human evolution, such as vision and spoken language. [...] we come into the world programmed with the capacity to change what is given to us by nature, so that we can go beyond it. We are, it would seem from the start, genetically poised for breakthroughs.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Healthy brains create a healthy society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to Nature: we are looking for natural conspiracies, for connections among apparently disparate data. Our objective is to abstract patterns from Nature (right-hemisphere thinking), but many proposed patterns do not in fact correspond to the
data. Thus all proposed patterns must be subjected to the sieve of critical analysis (left-hemisphere thinking).”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.”
― Bruce D. Perry, Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

“Major scientific insights are characteristically intuitive, and equally characteristically described in scientific papers by linear analytical arguments. There is no anomaly in this: it is, rather, just as it should be. The creative act has major right-hemisphere components. But arguments on the
validity of the result are largely left-hemisphere functions.”
― Carl Sagan

“Every moment, we create a new reality, and then the earlier reality loses its accountability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“humans are able to thrive in many different environments, from the frozen tundra to the high mountains to bustling urban centers. This is possible because the human brain is born remarkably unfinished. Instead of arriving with everything wired up – let’s call it “hardwired” – a human brain allows itself to be shaped by the details of life experience. This leads to long periods of helplessness as the young brain slowly molds to its environment. It’s “livewired”.”
― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman

“Without an environment with emotional care and cognitive stimulation, the human brain cannot develop normally.”
― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman

“Truth in the human world, is constructed, defined and then reconstructed by the human self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Human brain is a tool, which have answers of every questions.”
― Saad Shah

“It is difficult to appreciate the complexity of the brain because the numbers are so huge. The average brain consists of 100 billion neurons.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music

“Perception of reality emerges from the brain and dissolves in the brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Human brain is the supreme creator of all fortune. It is the biggest miracle of nature which makes all other miracles possible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“A neuron in the human brain can never equate the human mind, but this analogy doesn't hold true for a digital mind, by virtue of its mathematical structure, it may – through evolutionary progression and provided there are no insurmountable evolvability constraints – transcend to the higher-order Syntellect. A mind is a web of patterns fully integrated as a coherent intelligent system; it is a self-generating, self-reflective, self-governing network of sentient components (that are themselves minds) that evolves, as a rule, by propagating through dimensionality and ascension to ever-higher hierarchical levels of emergent complexity. In this book, the Syntellect emergence is hypothesized to be the next meta-system transition, developmental stage for the human mind – becoming one global mind – that would constitute quintessence of the looming Cybernetic Singularity.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution

“He turned to his side, with the kind of creepily glazed look our eyeballs make when we’re alone in a room, brushing our teeth, chewing, or wiping our ass. His blanket was still wet with warm semen. He thought about his father. Then he remembered he needed to wash the clothes in the laundromat. His semen dripped and he thought about bird feeding. There was one bird who loved his safflower seeds. He ground his teeth and imagined what it was like to be born in Africa. He reflected on his most recent online English tutor lesson learning from a native speaker. He was fluent, but it paid to feel like you had a friend somewhere. Then he thought of peanut butter. The thoughts of the human mind transition so quickly that it only ever seems strange when we say it aloud to someone else. Otherwise, we’re all secretly freaks with our mouths shut. He laid there ugly.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Half knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. Take the notion that jellyfish don't have a brain, for example. When we talk about the brain, we're actually referring to the central nervous system. In case of the jellyfish, the nervous system is not centralized, instead it's spread across the anatomy. So the actual fact is, jellyfish do have a brain, it just doesn't look like one. Even trees have a brain, a nervous system that is. To put it simply, consciousness is the supreme fundamental of life, and it is impossible to have consciousness without having some sort of nervous system, for consciousness is the creation of the nervous system.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Brain makes the mind, mind makes the person.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Neurons can make or break the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

“The pursuit of personal happiness has
become a modern maxim, crowding out other definitions of the “good life.”
Even acts of kindness toward others are framed as a strategy for personal happiness. Altruism, no longer merely a good in itself, has become a vehicle
for our own “well-being".”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“I regard the internet as an extension to my brain.”
― Steven Magee

“I don't make baseless claims like - I'll remove all your fears, I'll remove all your anxieties, I'll remove all your insecurities. I am a scientist, not an influencer - which means, I am dutybound to adhere to the truth, no matter how inconvenient they are, instead of peddling comforting lies for exposure. And the truth is, if bombarding people with some fancy facts about the mind removed their worries, every household with a DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) would be the happiest place on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Brain is the best laboratory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“The human brains weighs 2.65 pounds. Yet, the weight of the good or the evil that it can produce exceeds the weight of a million brains.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Neurosonnet 2001

Neurons giveth,
neurons taketh away.
By neurons we forge self,
with neurons we fade away.

Within neurons cosmos comes to life,
within neurons worlds come to end.
Neurons are building blocks of walls,
as well as the instrument of bridges.

There is not one but two cosmos,
one made by nature, another by neurons.
We are the makers of observable reality,
shaped by hopes and biases of our own.

Neurons are the birthplace of God,
Neurons produce all ghosts and goblins.
Life is a concoction of neurochemistry,
Boon and bane are both our own making.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Pocket Book of Consciousness

“Neurons giveth,
neurons taketh away.
By neurons we forge self,
with neurons we fade away.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Pocket Book of Consciousness