Brain Functionality Quotes

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. But, in my view, this whole field is based on a misconception. I think the brain is analog, whereas the machines are digital. They really are different. So I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

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.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

Brains come in different types and they're all normal.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you're thinking of. I can tell if you're listening to me or not. That's possible with an MRI now.

I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

I guess different brains work in different ways.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

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.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

I have a simple, simple brain.