Henry Markram Quotes

What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

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

I want to know how the mind works.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

We're not in the physical world. The physical world is in us. We create the physical world when we perceive it, when we observe it. And also we create this experience in our imagination. And when I say "we," I don't mean the physical body or the brain, but a deeper domain of consciousness which conceives, governs, constructs and actually becomes everything that we call physical reality.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.