Michio Kaku Quotes

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

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

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.

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.

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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

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

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

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

We have our own brains.

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. But, in my view, this whole field is based on a misconception. I think the brain is analog, whereas the machines are digital. They really are different. So I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.