Neural Complexity Quotes

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper training you can quickly reap the benefits of this enormous potential.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.

A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don't understand. A single 'neuron' in a neural network is an incredibly simple mathematical function that captures a minuscule fraction of the complexity of a biological neuron.

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.