Tom Wolfe Quotes

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.

A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don't understand. A single 'neuron' in a neural network is an incredibly simple mathematical function that captures a minuscule fraction of the complexity of a biological neuron.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

The thing you realize when you get into studying neuroscience, even a little bit, is that everything is connected to everything else. So it's as if the brain is trying to use everything at its disposal - what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what is the temperature, past experience.

Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.