Geoffrey Hinton Quotes

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.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

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

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

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.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

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

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 brain is constantly adapting.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

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

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

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.

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.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

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

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

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

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.