Pamela Stephenson Quotes

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.