
“brain is not an information-absorbing, perpetual coding device, as it is often portrayed, but a venture-seeking explorer, an action-obsessed agent constantly controlling the body’s actuators and sensors to test its hypotheses. The brain ceaselessly interacts with, rather than just detects, the external world in order to remain itself. It is through such exploration that correlations and interactions acquire meaning and become information (Chapter 5). Brains do not process information: they create it.”
― The Brain from Inside Out
― The Brain from Inside Out

“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

“Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.”
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“The brain evolved not to represent anything but to help its host body to survive and reproduce.”
― The Brain from Inside Out
― The Brain from Inside Out
“Artifacts, and, eventually, words can readily communicate semantic information from one brain to another without laborious episodic exploration by each individual. Instead, the grounding of meaning is simply achieved by guidance or approval from others. Externalized information can be named, and, therefore, it rapidly spreads semantic knowledge. This ability comes with a cost, though. We accept the definition of events and phenomena too often without personal experience, accumulating and using a huge vocabulary in which we do not understand the true meaning of many words.”
― The Brain from Inside Out
― The Brain from Inside Out
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