#cognition
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Programming is a way of thinking.
From Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert
Our brains are designed to create models of the world.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
Emotions are crucial to how babies learn and understand.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
From The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The act of doubting is the act of thinking.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
Analysts must understand their own cognitive biases.
From The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
The nature of mathematical truth is deeply intertwined with the nature of the mind.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
The righteous mind is like a lawyer defending a client.
From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
The mind is a thing that thinks.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
Attention is a limited resource; managing it effectively is crucial.
From The Playmaker's Advantage by Leonard Zaichkowsky and Daniel Peterson
Most people are blind to the Black Swan effects.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Understanding is not merely a matter of computation.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
The mind is a profound mystery, and it is one that we do not yet fully understand.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
The key to success is to recognize the potential in what seems like a loonshot.
From Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
The brain is not a computer; it is a structure that learns and remembers.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
From The Art of Living by Epictetus
Ideas are the necessary conditions under which we are able to think about things.
The map is not the territory.
Deep learning architectures have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications such as image and speech recognition.
From Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
The complexity of a child's mind can teach us about our own.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.
Many people believe they can predict the future based on past events.
From The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
Expertise is often overrated.
Our decisions are often influenced by factors we do not recognize.
From The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
There is more to intelligence than mere computation.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
What we see is all there is.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The complexity of human thought is both a challenge and an inspiration.
From Genius Makers by Cade Metz
To build machines that think, we must first understand how we think.
From Genius Makers by Cade Metz
To be free is to be recognized as free.
Our intuition is often misleading when it comes to understanding probabilities.
From The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task.
From Deep Work by Cal Newport
Intelligence is not just about processing information; it’s about understanding it.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
Humans are surprisingly good at recognizing patterns.
The mind is not designed to be a great problem solver.
Children’s unique way of interpreting the world offers profound insights into human cognition.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good. It is when it is used that we feel the best.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.
To create effective AI, we need to understand the intricacies of human cognition.
The scout mindset is the ability to hold two conflicting ideas in your mind at the same time.
From The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
Acknowledging our biases is the first step to overcoming them.
From The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
The ease with which we retrieve information influences our perception of frequency.
It is not enough to explain how the brain processes information.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
The hedgehog and the fox represents the different ways of thinking about knowledge.
People often make decisions based on emotions rather than reason.
Market fluctuations are not just challenges; they are opportunities for those who can recognize them.
From The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitznagel
The process of modeling can reveal hidden patterns.
From The Model Thinker by Scott E. Page
Our mental models shape the way we interpret the world around us.
The brain's functioning cannot be reduced to mere algorithms.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
Every thought and action is a reflection of the models we create.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
We will enhance our cognitive abilities through advances in nanotechnology and biotechnology.
From The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Mental models are frameworks that simplify complex realities.
Every contribution matters, no matter how small.
From Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
We are not just thinking machines; we are feeling machines that think.
From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
The mind is not designed to be an accurate judge of its own capabilities.
In order to be able to think, we must be able to judge.
The future of AI hinges on our understanding of cognition and intelligence.
AI is not yet capable of true understanding, and that is a fundamental limitation.
We are not as rational as we think.
From Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
Understanding is a kind of a loop.
The mind of a baby is an extraordinary place.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
Children are not just mini-adults; they are a unique kind of thinker.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
What you see is all there is.
Our memories are not records but rather creative reconstructions.
Intelligence is not just about knowledge.
From Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Intuitive judgments are often wrong.
The study of AI is about creating systems that can perform tasks that require human-like intelligence.
From Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
I think, therefore I am.
We are not as rational as we think we are.
From The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Self-consciousness is the recognition of self in another.
We are motivated to maintain our self-esteem.
From The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Mental models are frameworks that help us understand the world.
From Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
The mind's ability to create meaning is what distinguishes us.
Children are not just miniature adults; they are unique thinkers in their own right.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
In a complex world, the ability to think broadly is a unique advantage.
From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
We are all pattern seekers; it's what makes us human.
From The Pattern Seekers by Simon Baron-Cohen
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
From The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey
An octopus can recognize individual humans and forms bonds with them.
From The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The right hemisphere sees the big picture, while the left focuses on detail.
We often use our intelligence to rationalize our desires.
From The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
From The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
We need to recognize the differences between faiths rather than ignore them.
From God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero
We are prone to overestimate our understanding of the world.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
Computers are not just tools; they are extensions of our minds.
From The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
People have a tendency to believe what they want to believe.
When we make decisions, we often fail to take into account the context.
From Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The brain does not merely react to the world; it actively shapes our experience.
The understanding can only think that which it produces itself, according to its own rules.
Self-reference is a strange phenomenon.
In order to be oneself, one must be recognized by others.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
Much of what we do is driven by motives we don't recognize.
From The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
People tend to trust their own intuition over expert advice.
From The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
A lot of people think they are rational but they are just not aware of their biases.
The drive to make sense of the world is universal.
From The Pattern Seekers by Simon Baron-Cohen
The brain is not a computer, and the processes of thought are not computational.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose