Quotes tagged “cognition”

“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.”

“How much have we not seen or felt or heard because there was no word for it -- at least no word we knew? We speak to navigate ourselves away from dark corners and we become, each one of us, cartogr...”

“The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding”

“Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations.”

“The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.”

“Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility, and, as the existentialists might put it, flee from freedom. Thus, poor feeling is a kind...”

“The hormonal interplay inside a womans head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day whats important. They mold her desires and values.”

“To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive ...”

“Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.”

“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 ...”

“The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, an...”

“In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.”

“…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-calle...”

“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.”

“The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They mold her desires and values.”