Sam Kean Quotes

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

Every mental state is also physical.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

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.

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

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

I had to find the interconnection of my brain together with my physiology.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.

We know that there is a connection between our feelings and our brain.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.

What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.

It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.

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