Quotes by Brain What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence. Antonio Damasio self brain feelings Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence. Antonio Damasio scott-fitzgerald true-happiness brain How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? Antonio Damasio stability self brain If you have just an emotion, you would not necessarily feel it. To feel an emotion, you need to represent in the brain in structures that are actually different from the structures that lead to the emotion, what is going on in the organs when you're having the emotion. Antonio Damasio different brain needs When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on. Antonio Damasio skins brain looks There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there. Antonio Damasio degrees differences brain We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain, be it the electroencephalogram or magnet encephalography or say functional magnetic resonance. So it's pretty tough to make those comparisons. Antonio Damasio resonance tough brain In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do. Antonio Damasio simple self brain Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality? Antonio Gramsci work-out personality brain Anyone who can say and do anything better than Anuj brilliant done brain Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after. Aphex Twin the-end-of-the-day brain forget When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it. Aphex Twin deals brain order There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction. Aphex Twin work-out brain people If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh." Aphex Twin chords accepting brain Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out. Aphex Twin lines brain long Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on. Archie Kalokerinos pneumonia vaccines brain Dates can be important. It's a nice way to remember when I took the photo without having to rack my brain or look in the archives. It also makes every photo important, because there is the date. I can take a picture of nothing, but at least we know when I took it. Ari Marcopoulos nice important brain And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. Aristotle views brain heart The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance. Aristotle soul brain heart I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind. Arjun Rampal entertainment want brain «678910111213141516»