Luke Kirby Quotes

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

The brain runs its show incognito.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

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.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.

Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

Minds are simply what brains do.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.