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  • Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

    Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley
  • The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

    Thinking   Autism   Doe  
    "How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results". www.scientificamerican.com. August 01, 2008.
  • The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  • In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

  • We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

    Art   Talking   Cognition  
    Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”
  • Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

    Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”
  • Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.

  • Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

    Ludwik Fleck (1981). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.86, University of Chicago Press
  • There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

    Memories   Men   Class  
    Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.65, Harvard University Press
  • Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

  • There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

    Integrity   Men   Two  
  • But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  • We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.

    Character   Law   Choices  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

    "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.
  • Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

    Mean   Errors   Ideas  
  • The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.

    "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.
  • The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

  • I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
 And I worry that we’re losing that.

    Book   Reading   Believe  
  • Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.

  • A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

    Men   Feelings   Tools  
    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.34, Penguin
  • Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

    Men   Play   Different  
  • Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

    William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.115, Hackett Publishing
  • There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

    Science   Men   Views  
  • We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

    Exercise   Cells   Brain  
    Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.3, ASCD
  • All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

    Life   Food   Science  
  • Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.

    Dream   Believe   Mean  
    "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".
  • Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.

    "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.
  • Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

    Epilepsy   Two   Autism  
    "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.
  • The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.

    Mind   Ordinary   Details  
    "Biophilia". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1984.
  • Cognition reigns but does not rule.

    Doe   Reign   Cognition  
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