"We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much."
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"The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility."
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"The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them."
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"We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion."
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"Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen.""
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"I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life"
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"I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience."
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"Intellect--brain force."
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"In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others."
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"I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well."
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"I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard."
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"that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun"
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"Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior."
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"In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart."
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"At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing."
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"If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical."
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"Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work."
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"You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain."
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"The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer."
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"I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are."
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