Cognitive Interaction Quotes

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.

Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.