Marvin Minsky Quotes

Minds are simply what brains do.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

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

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

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

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 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.

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.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

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

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

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

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

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

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

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

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

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.