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“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.”

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Mark Pagel

Limited information is available about Mark Pagel, born in 1954, whose occupation and category remain unknown. more

“There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.”

People Humans Universe Numbers Brain Activity Adults Billions Contact Combination Particles Exceed Human Brain Neurons

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.”

Persons Views Brain Watches Fire Point Of View Reaching Adopting Neurons Grabbing

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.”

Brain Percent Musical Hearing Visuals Hallucinations

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.”

Brain Visuals Addresses Vocal Seducing Psychotic Hallucinations Humiliate

Author:Oliver Sacks

“What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.”

Writing Language Ability Brain Consciousness Collectives Collective Intelligence

Author:Louise Leakey

“I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke!" And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?"”

Next Opportunity Brain Study Scientist I Realized Wow Strokes Oh My Gosh

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman's body.”

Writing Body Courses Process Hours Ability Walks Brain Morning Four Information Recalls Infant Women's Bodies

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.”

Thinking Feels Looks Moments Body Sound Brain Information Movement Taste Smell Enormous Present Moment Hemisphere Collages

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.”

Hands Three Space Brain Mass Pounds Infinity Contemplating Palms Vastness Jelly Interstellar

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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