Freeman Dyson Quotes

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

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.

The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

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