Miguel Nicolelis Quotes

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

I think we think in terms of stories.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

I'm very interested in how the brain works and the different personality types. I get my friends to do personality tests, and I see what type they resemble.

I like the human mind and how messed up it is.

A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

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

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

I want to know how the mind works.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

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