Alan Turing Quotes

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

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.

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.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

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

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

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

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.

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.

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

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.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

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.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

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 thing you realize when you get into studying neuroscience, even a little bit, is that everything is connected to everything else. So it's as if the brain is trying to use everything at its disposal - what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what is the temperature, past experience.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.