Journey of the Mind Quotes

“The uncanny experience of meaning that enters our consciousness when we comprehend a word is entirely unrelated to the perceptual qualities of the word itself.”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“Consciousness is a rich, intimate, symbiotic relationship between reality and itself. And the more conscious we are of consciousness, the more we will come to value other sentient beings as hallowed and exquisite flickers of feeling within the boundless darkness.”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“None of us are born with even the most rudimentary knowledge of alphabets, words, or grammar. Though the human brain springs from the womb well prepared for speech, like an aspiring diver in scuba gear, face mask, and wet suit poised on the edge of a dock, unless the brain plunges headlong into the ocean of language it will never learn how to talk.”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“All conscious beings share a common privilege. We are all hoping and suffering, recognizing and realizing, fearful and fervent. We are all cosmic weavers: the frog mind and the hummingbird mind and the chimpanzee mind pluck out kaleidoscopic snapshots of the universe’s unfolding within their resonance, knotting the ceaseless torrent of chaos into a prismatic tapestry”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“A mind is an activity. The mind has more in common with a basketball game than it does with a MacBook.”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. —Cosmos, Carl Sagan”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“But that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union
that is perfect. We are striving to forge our union with purpose. —“The Hill We Climb,” Amanda Gorman”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“When module minds began to communicate with one another through complex external representations it paved the way for the emergence of superminds and the mental powers of a god—a volatile and capricious god who tends to reach for the darkness with nearly the same likelihood as it reaches for the light.”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“All conscious beings share a common privilege. We are all hoping and suffering, recognizing and realizing, fearful and fervent. We are all cosmic weavers: the frog mind and the hummingbird mind and the chimpanzee mind pluck out kaleidoscopic snapshots of the universe’s unfolding within their resonance, knotting the ceaseless torrent of chaos into a prismatic tapestry. In these animal minds, as in our own minds, we gather up fleeting fragments of reality and transform them into feeling, a cosmos within a cosmos.”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

“Çatalhöyük”
― Ogi Ogas, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos