Quotes by Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

“Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness.”

“Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.”

“Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.”

“The lessons of relationship that our primordial ancestors learned are deeply encoded in the genetics of our neurobiological circuits of love. They are present from the moment we are born and activa...”

“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look, you can observe such behavior all around you. The beautiful bird chirp...”

“In the beginning of our love lives, it is the beastly instinct of sexual attraction that drives us all. The butterflies in your stomach simply signal your mind that the person in front of you would...”

“Lets talk about mankinds most adored emotion Love. However, love itself is not a single emotion, rather a blend of many. It is such an enchanting sensation, that it has been inspiring artists, sci...”

“When you say to someone follow your heart, it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system. So, the me...”

“When you say to someone "follow your heart", it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system.”

“The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?”

“Every single decision of your life is predicated on the healthy functioning of the prefrontal cortex. Even a slight malfunction in a tiny chunk of neuron anywhere in the PFC would lead to the menta...”

“Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. Even the plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their o...”

“Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life wont have any significance to you whatsoever.”

“You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.”

“Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.”

“Observing the medical histories of various neurological syndromes is like observing the fascinating nerve cells of the human brain in action, while they construct what we so proudly call the Human ...”

“As the neurobiology of our species gets more and more complicated, its functional expression, which we call the mind, shall get more vivid and productive.”

“When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence.”

“Consciousness is simple, if you are bold enough to accept it as simple.”

“Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.”