Antonio Damasio Quotes

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

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

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.

The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

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

The brain runs its show incognito.

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.

Our brain is the factory of the emotions

Minds are simply what brains do.

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from our brain and we could then use that to control computers.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

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.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.