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John Vervaeke - What is Cognitive Science?
Your brain is a giant of its own, made up of a network of 86 billion neurons.10 An isolated neuron is pretty useless. But by communicating with one another, a group of neurons can move upward on the Emergence Tower and combine into a single thinking system that’s far more powerful than the sum of its parts: the brain.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, thinks of the brain as a society—a society of subassemblies cooperating to learn about the world.251 The image can easily be reversed. A society is a brain, a learning device that works according to the principles that drive a neural net.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Similarly, cognitive neuroscientists are increasingly appreciating that mental function is often spread out. Language ability does not reside in a specific region of the brain; rather, it comprises a distributed network—like the electrical wires in your house—that draws on and engages regions throughout the
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
As its goal is to take neuroscience out of the lab and into the real world, applied neuroscience draws knowledge from many areas of science, from psychology to molecular biology.