Michael Gazzaniga
A leading cognitive neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on split-brain patients, revealing insights into brain lateralization and consciousness.
Quotes by Michael Gazzaniga
The great challenge for neuroscience is to understand how the brain, a physical organ, gives rise to the mind, our subjective experience.
Our brains are not designed to understand themselves.
The interpreter is the left hemisphere's drive to make sense of the world, to create a story, to explain why things happen.
We are all of us, to some extent, confabulators.
Consciousness is not a single thing, but a collection of specialized modules working in parallel.
The brain is a parallel distributed processor, not a serial one.
Free will is a social construct, not a biological one.
The brain is a decision-making device, but it's not a single, unified decision-maker.
The left hemisphere is the storyteller, the right hemisphere is the silent observer.
Our subjective experience of the world is a construction, not a direct perception.
The brain is an organ of belief.
We are all born with a moral compass, but it's shaped by our experiences.
The brain is a collection of specialized systems that work together to produce a unified experience.
The illusion of conscious will is a powerful one.
The brain is constantly trying to make sense of the world, even when there's no sense to be made.
The self is a narrative constructed by the left hemisphere.
Our memories are not perfect recordings, but reconstructions.
The brain is a social organ, designed for interaction with others.
Ethics is not something that is imposed on us, but something that emerges from our social interactions.
The brain is a complex adaptive system.