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It is always easier to remember a difficult concept in one of its tangible manifestations than in its essence.
“In short, your brain’s most important job is not thinking. It’s running a little worm body that has become very, very complicated.”
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
“Other animals are not inferior to humans. They are uniquely and effectively adapted to their environments. Your brain is not more evolved than a rat or lizard brain, just differently evolved.”
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
“In short, science is well positioned to properly handle belief. Religion is not.”
― Buddhism is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
― Buddhism is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
“Only a brief study of history is necessary to show that Greek philosophers were undesirable citizens, who throughout the period of their investigations were victims of relentless persecution, at the hands of the Athenian government. Anaxagoras was imprisoned and exiled; Socrates was executed; Plato was sold into slavery and Aristotle was indicted and exiled; while the earliest of them all, Pythagoras, was expelled from Croton in Italy. Can we imagine the Greeks making such an about turn, as to claim the very teachings which they had at first persecuted and openly rejected?”
― By George G. M. James: Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
― By George G. M. James: Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
“Brains of higher complexity can remember more. A brain doesn’t store memories like files in a computer—it reconstructs them on demand with electricity and swirling chemicals. We call this process remembering but it’s really assembling.”
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
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