Consciousness Mind Brain Quotes

#1. I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

Jeff Hawkins

#2. If I ask you, are you conscious right now? You'd go right ahead and tell me - yes. That's because your conscious mind is constructing an awareness in you about everything around you. And underneath that operation of your conscious mind, there are billions of neurons working in proper harmony.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

Criss Jami

#5. All human endeavors are the achievements of the little specks of jelly in your head.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. The consciousness of the body is more powerful than the consciousness of the mind.

Joey Lawsin

#8. Memorizing facts and then regurgitating them into carefully crafted words is not science people. It's intellectual bulimia. Real science happens when we explore what we don't know. The first law of understanding the human brain and the mind within, is to be an explorer.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

Robert Jay Lifton

#12. We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind.

Debasish Mridha

#15. And eventually even the brain might go. As the seat of consciousness, it was not essential; the development of electronic intelligence had proved that. The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis ... . But

Arthur C. Clarke

#16. Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

Ayn Rand

#18. Consciousness is simply the brain's neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. There are infinite ways for your mind to torture it's self.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#20. The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. Every single decision of your life is predicated on the healthy functioning of the prefrontal cortex. Even a slight malfunction in a tiny chunk of neuron anywhere in the PFC would lead to the mental deficit in your logical decision-making.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

Candace Pert

#24. Mind is not a product of brain rather an integral part of the soul, our eternal being. Those who understand this truth can think beyond the material reality and move to higher states of consciousness.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#25. Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way more complex than the usual waking state.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.

Sharon Salzberg

#27. We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. If you could observe every thought in your brain the magnitude of it's vastness would drive you insane.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#29. The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

W. Somerset Maugham

#30. One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

Aleksandar Hemon

#31. As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi