Martha Beck Quotes

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

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.

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

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.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

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

I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.

Women think with their whole bodies

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.