The Mind's Past Quotes

“Autobiography is hopelessly inventive.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past

“Hence at any moment only part of the visual elements of a scene is available for conscious perception.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past

“So before you are aware that you're thinking about moving your arm, your brain is at work preparing to make that movement!”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past

“Libet has provided us with an intriguing possible mechanism for explaining why we think we are doing in real time things that we have in fact already done.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past

“This great zone of cerebral activity is where plans are made to speak, write, throw a baseball, or pick up a dish from the table.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past

“We don't learn to talk, as most think. We start to talk when our brain is good and ready to say something.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past