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Neural repatterning comes as we enter into and sustain new types of relationships that allow us to reregulate our sense impressions slowly and over time. -- Tian Dayton
Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They're called campaign promises. -- Jay Leno
Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others. -- Ramez Naam
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'? -- David Chalmers
The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations. -- Paul Bloom
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. -- Zadie Smith
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. -- Michael Gove
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization. -- Michael Shermer
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant. -- Frans de Waal
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting muscle physiology; really interesting neural computations. -- Michael Dickinson
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. -- Mark Pagel
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day. -- Kate Atkinson
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety. -- Siri Hustvedt
The neural code usually refers to how your current thoughts and feelings and perceptions are encoded in the signals that neurons are passing around - and it's not the same. The code is not the same for every person. -- Sebastian Seung
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems. -- Paul Bloom
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. -- David Chalmers
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it. -- Yo-Yo Ma
I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms. -- Ramez Naam
One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives. -- James Wolcott
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. -- Eric Kandel
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway. -- Robin Marantz Henig
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't. -- Leonard Susskind
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. -- Stephen Hawking
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies. -- Miguel Nicolelis
One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect different components of that neural circuit and see what happens if you knock out, for example, inability to recognize faces, how it affects your response to portraiture. -- Eric Kandel
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do. -- Marvin Minsky
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators. -- John Battelle
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants. -- Daniel H. Wilson
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in. -- Joshua Foer
the mind is a neural computer -- Steven Pinker
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason. -- Antonio Damasio
My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems. -- Frederick Lenz
I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems. -- Frederick Lenz
I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts. -- Mary E. Pearson
Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks. -- Deepak Chopra
You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways. -- Deepak Chopra
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"? -- David Chalmers
Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals. -- Daniel Coyle
Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones. -- Philippa Perry
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. -- Robert Genn
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function. -- Richard Restak
If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections. -- Philippa Perry
I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health. -- Amy Hardie
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations. -- Diane Ackerman
When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life. -- Andrew Ferguson
My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems. -- Frederick Lenz
My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems. -- Frederick Lenz
We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections -- Daniel Goleman
Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again. -- Tony Robbins
The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences. -- Deepak Chopra
Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills. -- Philippa Perry

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