Neil Gaiman Quotes

I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.

the mind is a neural computer

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

Those who grew up digital have different brains.

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.