Human Brain Quotes - Page 5

• We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.

  Karl Albrecht

  Organization, Creative, Brain

  Karl Albrecht, Steven Albrecht (1987). “The creative corporation”, Richard d Irwin

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• Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human brains connected through the
  internet) happen to motivate infelicitous technological designs.
  For instance, designs that celebrate the noosphere tend to energize the inner troll, or bad actor, within humans.

  Jaron Lanier

  Design, Brain, Actors

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.45, Vintage

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• Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Thinking, Differences, Brain

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

  Colin Baker

  Brain, Efficiency, Humans

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". 'Doctor Who' ('The Two Doctors'), 16 February - 2 March, 1985.

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• 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?

  Francis Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

  "N.I.H. Director Francis Collins On Agency Goals". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 11, 2009.

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• Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Environmental, Pressure

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without implying that celestials have their heads in the clouds or that terrestrials have theirs buried in the ground. The difference between these two types is not so much in their theories but in whether or not they would find it a very sad thing if it turned out that the only way a human is superior to a wolf is this: the human brain is significantly more capacious and complex.

  Nomy Arpaly

  Writing, Brain, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.

  Benjamin Stone

  Running, Powerful, Years

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Differences, Years, People

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• I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Brain, Fundamentals

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• There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

  William E. Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

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• There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.

  Manny Alvarez

  Appreciation, Children, Parent

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

  Moby

  Negativity, Brain, Environment

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?

  Steve Lohr

  Math, Data, Thought Provoking

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• A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

  Henry Markram

  Cells, Drug, Brain

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• The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

  Edward Boyden

  Cells, Brain, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

  John Shelby Spong

  Brain, Able, Deities

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

  Daniel Dennett

  Order, Brain, Mind

  Daniel C. Dennett (1996). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rain, Years, Done

  Source: inters.org

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• The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.

  Tony Buzan

  Order, Brain, Patterns

  "The Mind Map Book". Book by Tony Buzan, 1991.

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• The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

  Nick Bostrom

  Self, Brain, Needs

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.43, OUP Oxford

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• Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Drama, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can convince people that the problem is not coming from the top but is, rather, being created by the people who are being oppressed.

  Trevor Noah

  Self, People, Hatred

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Data, Brain, Rumor

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