Cognitive Revolution Quotes

#1. The heated debates about Homo sapiens' 'natural way of life' miss the main point. Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn't been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. 70,000 The Cognitive Revolution. Emergence of fictive language. Beginning of history. Sapiens spread out of Africa.

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. The Cognitive Revolution is accordingly the point when history declared its independence from biology.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. From the Cognitive Revolution onwards, historical narratives replace biological theories as our primary means of explaining the development of Homo sapiens.

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#6. The appearance of new ways of thinking and communicating, between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago, constitutes the Cognitive Revolution. What caused it? We're not sure. The most commonly believed theory argues that accidental genetic mutations changed the inner wiring of the brains of

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

Pierre Omidyar

#8. To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#9. I wonder if he had a Cathy and who see was.

John Steinbeck

#10. By the way, Doc Edwards said. How's that book coming along?
Oh, it's coming along.
Fine. What's it about?
Just what I'm writing down: one word after another.
Good.

Richard Brautigan

#11. Today may be a very bad day, but tomorrow may be the best day of your life. You just have to hang on until you get there.

Mia Sheridan

#12. Different languages cut the world into different slices.

Jean Berko Gleason