Cognitive Link Quotes

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.