Best Synapses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Under a microscope a lonely neuron struggles desperately to find a connection, stretching out dendrites in the dark, so does a human being, and once that existential urge for attachment is overrun by newage primitivities like ultraindividualism and what not, that's the end of consciousness, that's the end of civilization, that's the end of the human race.”

Family Loneliness Lonely Isolation Attachment Loved Ones Companionship Relations Synapses

Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“For many years, it was believed that the connections between neurons in an adult brain were fixed. Learning, it was believed, involved increasing or decreasing the strength of synapses. This is still how learning occurs in most artificial neural networks. However, over the past few decades, scientists have discovered that in many parts of the brain, including the neocortex, new synapses form and old ones disappear. Every day, many of the synapses on an individual neuron will disappear and new ones will replace them. Thus, much of learning occurs by forming new connections between neurons that were previously not connected. Forgetting happens when old or unused connections are removed entirely.”

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Book:A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Source: A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

“Nerve endings. That’s what it all comes down to. Billions of rooted synapses, like trees entwined in erratic soil. Lightning strikes every millionth of a second, the charges scattering across the gaps and down a spinal braid.”

Dreams Thoughts Nerves Synapses

Book:Biome

Source: Biome

“Nature is the Mother of All Information. She is the source, the keeper, the database, the memory bank of all information.”

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Book:Originemology

Source: Originemology

“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets that could be erased easily and used again. These days, we tend to think of memory as a camera or a video recorder, filming, storing, and recycling the vast troves of data we accumulate throughout our lives. In practice, though, every memory we retain depends upon a chain of chemical interactions that connect millions of neurons to one another. Those neurons never touch; instead, they communicate through tiny gaps, or synapses, that surround each of them. Every neuron has branching filaments, called dendrites, that receive chemical signals from other nerve cells and send the information across the synapse to the body of the next cell. The typical human brain has trillions of these connections. When we learn something, chemicals in the brain strengthen the synapses that connect neurons. Long-term memories, built from new proteins, change those synaptic networks constantly; inevitably, some grow weaker and others, as they absorb new information, grow more powerful.”

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Author:Michael Specter

“The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening. I know that my brain is composed of a cerebrum, a cerebellum, and a medulla oblongata, but these are just words. I know that electrical impulses are involved somehow, but that is about the extent of my understanding of the mechanics. And while I at least have an intuition as to how an airplane works, I really have none with respect to my brain. Frankly, lots of what appears on my computer screen is as much a surprise to me as it is to you. I certainly never expected over my oatmeal and English muffin this morning to be writing about Bernoulli's principle today. For that matter, I have no idea why I like English muffins. But I do.”

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Book:Q

Source: Q

“If a psychosis was just some synapses misfiring why wouldnt you simply get static? But you dont. You get a carefully crafted and fairly articulate world never seen before. Who's doing this? Who is it who is running around hooking up the dangling wires in new and unusual ways. Why is he doing it? What is the algorithm he follows? Why do we suspect there is one?”

World Autism Psychosis Algorithm Synapses Wires

Book:Stella Maris

Source: Stella Maris

“Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.”

Way Feels Different Sometimes Reading Sides Creative Materials Different Ways Fuel Favourite Firing Synapses

Author:Raine Maida

“Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Fire Missing Edges Careful Brown Lilies Rust Spirals Cerebral Synapses

Author:Graham Foust

“the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.”

Body Race Brain Stage Quitting Zone Adulthood Adolescence Teenage Firing Synapses

Book:The Best of Becky Freeman

Source: The Best of Becky Freeman

“When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't form by a certain age, they're not going to.”

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Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.”

Years Firsts Book Able Order Three Found Social Lines Brain Growing Media Couple Internet Pages First Time Direct Down And Social Media Wander Inability Stimulation Latent Synapses

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.”

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Author:Antonio Damasio

“In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.”

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Author:Geoffrey Hinton

“I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night. Now that I'm older I work really well in the early morning when your synapses are firing a little better. But I work at different times of the day.”

Writing Wells Mean Littles Different Young Night Morning Late Different Times Firing Early Morning Synapses

Author:Edward Hirsch

“When you go to Africa and you see people who are just like you and me - this is always my starting point. These are people who are just like you and me. The same synapses, same things are firing off in their heads, same dreams for their children, same hopes and aspirations that we all have. What can one do to reduce the possibility that their chances of a happy and healthy and prosperous life are not solely determined by the accident of where they were born?”

People Children Dream Born Chance Possibility Like You Healthy Starting Determined Accidents Aspiration Prosperous Starting Point Firing Synapses

Author:Michael Elliott

“The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.”

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Author:Edward Boyden

“I'll just immediately automatically, without even thinking, check my phone. And it feels like the same little bit of my brain is being - the synapses are lighting up when I do that.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.”

Ifs Knows Persons Talking Subjects Students College Folks Impressed Marine Pigeons College Students College Life Synapses Off To College College Tuition College Freshmen

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.”

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses”

Mind Claims Synapses

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.”

Mind Culture Memories Generations Members Code Binary Synapses

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.”

Ifs World Mind Use Order Sound Creation Paper Draws Woods Copies Remakes Crawling Synapses

Book:Darkhenge

Source: Darkhenge

“Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.”

Important Moving Ability Wonder Study Masters Survival Miracle Important Things Complicated Muscles Free Will Nerves Adam Organs Complicated Things Adam Parrish Moving Parts Synapses

Book:The Raven Boys

Source: The Raven Boys

“A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.”

Life Long Made Eye Used Energy Air Cry Wall Long Time Make Sense Connecting Long Time Ago Rationalize Ions Synapses Back Against The Wall

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which may be examined directly when they are properly magnified.”

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Author:Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

“The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth.”

Humans Two Earth Natural Brain Millions Hundred Structure Complexes Billions Miles Cells Nerves Artificial Human Brain Synapses

Author:Tim Green

“There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life.”

Way Kind Running White Brain Enemy Racism Racist Dna Tissues Synapses

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.”

Thinking Way I Can Hard Age Certain Rooms Brain Break Records Type My Family Genre Because I Can Living Room Wiring Genres Of Music Synapses

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”

People Memories Pathways Synapses

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.”

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Book:The Empathy Exams: Essays

Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays

“Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.”

Ifs Firsts Stills Ideas Ends Hurt My Own Week Feet Fronts Theory Months Evidence Connections Terror Teeth No Idea Chairs Nurse Equipment Mama Clicks Buzz Folding Sticking Out Synapses

Author:Katherine Dunn

“It’s okay if no one believes like you, all experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you, for this be relieved, keeps things interesting, life’s magic things in reach, and it doesn’t mean you aren’t connected, and the community is not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Believe Mean Persons Community Interesting Magic Effects Like You Perspective Unique Okay Connected Relieved Interesting Life Synapses

Author:Tanya Davis

“High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.”

Thinking Energy Fun Brain One Thing Kicks High Energy Synapses One Thing After Another

Author:Michael Keaton

“The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.”

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