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Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.
“Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.”
— Gerald Edelman · Brain
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“Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.”
“Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.”
“Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.”
“Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.”
“Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.”
“The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.”
“Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.”
“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.”
“Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.”
“It's important to understand that if you're having a stroke, you have only five hours to dissolve that clot. You need to be in an emergency room and have a clot-dissolver, otherwise your brain is gonna die and you're gonna die.”
“I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.”
“The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.”