“The human brain— that incredible three‐pound package of tissue that can imagine the farthest reaches of the universe and the ultimate core of the atom but cannot fathom its own functioning.” — Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., “Brain Signals in Test Foretell Action,” The New York Times (1971-02-13)
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“The human brain is often amazingly good at seeing what it wants to observe.” — Richard Wiseman, Did You Spot the Gorilla?
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“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” — Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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“I don’t know how a brain that is never used passes the time.” — Rex Stout, The Final Deduction
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“Strange how the brain controls the brain!” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dying Detective
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“The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred-billion light years across.” — Marian Diamond, Impossibility
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“We’re all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.” — Anil Seth, Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
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“Two small lobes of fat sitting in an unlit cavity, atop an evolved ape body, feeling nervous about whether it’s really experiencing things.” — Zach Weiner, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (23 September 2014)
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“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Sirens of Titan