William H

“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

“The brain evolved not to represent anything but to help its host body to survive and reproduce.”
― György Buzsáki, The Brain from Inside Out

“Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.”
― Mary Oliver

“brain is not an information-absorbing, perpetual coding device, as it is often portrayed, but a venture-seeking explorer, an action-obsessed agent constantly controlling the body’s actuators and sensors to test its hypotheses. The brain ceaselessly interacts with, rather than just detects, the external world in order to remain itself. It is through such exploration that correlations and interactions acquire meaning and become information (Chapter 5). Brains do not process information: they create it.”
― György Buzsáki, The Brain from Inside Out