Callosum Quotes & Sayings

I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme. — JWoww

The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we're in our thirties. — Barbara Neely

On the other hand, mere critical thinking, without creative and intuitive insights, without the search for new patterns, is sterile and doomed. To solve complex problems in changing circumstances requires the activity of both cerebral hemispheres: the path to the future lies through the corpus callosum. — Carl Sagan

No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people. — Sam Kean

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around. — Johnny Winter

X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine. — Sam Kean

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them. — Alison Eastwood

The core idea is that for an information processing system to be conscious, it needs to be integrated into a unified whole that can't be decomposed into nearly independent parts. This means that all parts need to compute jointly with lots of information about each other-otherwise there would be more than one independent consciousness, such as in a room full of people or, perhaps, in the two brain halves of a patient whose connecting corpus callosum has been cut out. If there are fairly independent parts that are too simple, then these won't be conscious at all, like the independent pixels of a video camera. — Max Tegmark

People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists. — Dan Sullivan