Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Quotes

• Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers, in groups uniquely adapted to sample the energetic states of the world around us: heat, light, force, and chemical composition. That is all we ever know of it directly; all else is logical inference.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Light, Brain, Nerves

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• Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Real, Believe, Brain

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• Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Brain, Prison, Universe

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