Timothy Leary Quotes

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

Reality is mind-made.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

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.

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.