MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe
Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
Reason cannot break out of its own loop.
Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.
The thing that keeps the thoughts coming back is the power that you put in the thought that you can't think of it.
My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
Thinking nurseth thinking.
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.
The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?
A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears.
Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.
It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.
The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.
