Neocortex Quotes

#1. The brevity of mini (psycho)therapies is another efficient forestaller of healing. The neocortex rapidly master didactic information, but the limbic brain takes mountains of repetition. No one expects to play the flute in six lessons or to become fluent in Italian in ten. (189)

Thomas Lewis

#2. The workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

#3. Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.

Ray Kurzweil

#4. The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

Jaak Panksepp

#5. The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

Jeff Hawkins

#6. The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.

Daniel Goleman

#7. So what does correlate with brain size? The answer, Dunbar argues, is group size. If you look at any species of primate-at every variety of monkey and ape-the larger their neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Jeff Hawkins

#9. Because the neocortex (the thinking brain) is capable of dishonesty, it is not a good source of reliable or accurate information (Ost, 2006, 259

Joe Navarro

#10. The implication is that we feel emotions (limbic brain) then find an explanation (neocortex). As

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, abstract and moral judgments, which, if they reside anywhere, reside in the neocortex.

Carl Sagan

#12. A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.

Karen Salmansohn

#13. Hallucinogens affect the neocortex, and my neocortex wasn't available to be affected.

Eben Alexander

#14. It doesn't matter how big your neocortex is or how abstractly you can reason: unless you can trust others, your species will forever remain stuck in the Stone Age.

Bruce Schneier

#15. It is impossible to make disciples aside from the church of Jesus Christ.

Francis Chan

#16. What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.

Wayne Dyer

#18. A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

Joseph Beach

#19. You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

Bram Cohen

#20. Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Ricky Gervais