“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.” PeopleWorldWellsLongBookRealityEnergyProcessBlackBrainCarPossibilityLimitsPhysicsHolesTalesDefinedFairyFairy TaleFar AwayLong AgoSectionsTelephonesBlack HoleHistory BooksNanotechnologyMuggles Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.” WritingMindHas BeensTwoCountryStoriesSeemsBrainPiecesGroupsWeekCenturyTenLimitsFilledChinaDataBordersTraveledAnalystsCrawlingFiling Author:Susanna Kaysen
“Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.” UniverseBrainPossibilityLimitsVocabularyInability Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut” MenHumansWellsStillsBodyEnergyCan DoBrainWiseLimitsWastePursuitWiserHuman BodyHuman BrainNo Energy Author:William E. Gladstone
“I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?” ThinkingHumansMayMeanDoeEvilUnderstandingTermBrainLimitsConceptsComplexityGood And EvilNeuroscienceHuman Brain Author:Francis Collins
“You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There's no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.” FormTermRoomsBrainFiguresDesignLimitsSizeHeight Author:Neill Blomkamp
“An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.” SidesBrainVisionEnvironmentWrittenLimitsAreasDivorceCapabilityBoth SidesLinearWritten WordUtilizationPeripheral Vision Author:Russell Means
“I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to dovetail our technologies - our brains to our tools. With the Industrial Revolution, we transcended the limits of our muscles. With the digital revolution, we transcend the limits of our minds.” ThinkingMindHumansHuman BeingsAbilityBrainTechnologyRevolutionLimitsToolsMusclesDigitalAdaptabilityIndustrial RevolutionAbility To AdaptDigital Revolution Author:Jason Silva
“There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.” IfsBrainCreationLimitsGraciousIf There Is A God Author:John Lydon