Cognitive Functioning Quotes

“Finally, the fox gently pulled both ear loops outward at the same time to make a pretty bow on top of the bunny’s head. The tips of her ears, hung just at her cheek bones.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“There are lots of different kinds of bows and Cleo loves them all.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“The bunny was thrilled that her ears no longer dragged on the ground. They would stay nice and clean.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“Don’t be afraid,” the fox said, “I would never hurt you.” She smiled sweetly but the bunny was still a little scared.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“Here’s a story that helps her tie the “bunny ear bow” exactly the same way every time.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“Birdy sang out, “It’s true. She’s a friendly fox.” The deer chimed in, “She’s helped us all in some way.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.”
― Sebastian Marincolo

“Great Job! Now you have a bow just like Cleo.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“Follow along at home to tie a bow just like the fox. Go find a scarf or ribbon that will fit around your waist or try these moves with your shoe laces.”
― Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

“Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.”
― Dan Gilbert

“Grey Hair Doesn't Guarantee Grey Matter.”
― Rahul Guhathakurta

“Cognitive reality of an individual solely arises from the make-up of that individual’s brain structure. Any kind of damage, like stroke can alter this reality without the awareness of the individual.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Reality is one big hypothesis hallucinated by your brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Trying to compose even a single sentence can have the same effect, as we try to juggle grammatical and syntactical alternatives plus all the possibilities of tone, nuance, and rhythm even a simple sentence offers. Composing, then, is a cognitive activity that
constantly threatens to overload short-term memory.”
― Linda Flower, Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing

“В голове обычного человека раздается множество голосов, которые он сам не сознает. Можно сказать, что в подвале человеческого ума постоянно происходит воровская сходка, где, собственно, и решается судьба всего дома. Эти голоса постоянно спорят между собой. Пока они говорят разное, крыше ничего не слышно – она лишь ощущает легкую нервоз- ность. Потом несколько таких голосов соглашаются о чем-то друг с другом и начинают гово- рить в унисон. Тогда их общая громкость делается достаточной, чтобы их стало слышно наверху – и они становятся командой.
Обычный человек не то чтобы слышит голоса – он им подчиняется. Еще точней, он и есть эти голоса, поскольку до того, как команды начинают выполняться, никакого человека просто нет: личность возникает именно в процессе их воплощения в жизнь.
Если же человек по какой-то причине слышит эти голоса все время, его или объявляют шизофреником и изолируют от нормальных людей, или назначают пророком и сажают в золотую колесницу. Но это, в общем, известно.
Можно долго спорить о природе таких голосов. Раньше считали, что они принадлежат богам, духам, ангелам и бесам. Потом их стали называть интериоризованными социальными кодами, фрагментами управляющих человеком программ, инвариантами иерархически обу- словленной матрицы поведения, и так далее – но сами голоса от этого не изменились ни разу.”
― Виктор Пелевин

“We have evolved psychologically indeed and through this evolution we have gained extraordinary psychological capacities, that basically are not possessed by any other species on earth, yet those capacities are not utilized at their fullest and most productive potential. It’s like having money and yet wasting it on unhealthy non-sense like alcohol and expensive cigars, while your neighbor is starving in front of your eyes.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Most instincts are allied to specialized organs, it is true, but it is nonetheless true that perception and acquired behavior, including the higher types of operative intelligence, do, in a more supple way, manifest certain functional possibilities or "reaction norms" of the anatomical and physiological structure of the species. In a word, the general coordinations of action upon which the building up of most basic types of knowledge is conditional, presuppose not only nervous coordinations but coordinations of a much more deep-seated kind, those which are, in fact, interactions dominating the entire morphogenesis.”
― Jean Piaget, Biology and Knowledge: An Essay on the Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive Processes