Cognitive Shift Quotes

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

The eye altering, alters all.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

In order to bring about the transition from the condition of the present to another newly resolved on, every reform should be allowed to proceed as much as possible from men’s minds and thoughts

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

To learn is to change how you think.

I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.

It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.