Quotes by Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

“The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.”

“We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember.”

“The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories youll have of that situation in the long run.”

“It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.”

“Current research in any field of Science has not yet reached the point where we could start exploring the existential question regarding God as a Supreme Entity driving causality in the universe. H...”

“The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.”

“Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.”

“Everything in your mental life proceeds in proper neurological order. If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelli...”

“It's like we act as a mirror for the environment, or to a broader aspect, the universe.”

“You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest ...”

“We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.”

“Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way mo...”

“Consciousness is simply the brains neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.”

“Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.”

“Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literat...”

“At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatua...”

“Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.”

“You are your brain and your brain is you.”

“Freedom of will is born from the neurons. And that freedom allows you to sometimes make even the worst decisions ever in your life. And by making the worst decision, you simply learn what would be ...”

“In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.”