Robert C. Solomon Quotes

the mind is a neural computer

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.

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

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.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

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

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.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

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.

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

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

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

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.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.

I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

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.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.