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Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
Statement (1981)
It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such.
Science and the Problem of Values (1972)
To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.
The Human Predicament: A Way Out? (1985)
Instead of maintaining the traditional separation of science and values, cognitive theory says the two come together in brain function.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.
Science and the Problem of Values (1972)
As a brain researcher, I'd started out simply accepting the strictly objective principles of the behaviorist position.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
We're beginning to learn the hard way that today's global ills are not cured by more and more science and technology.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
Unlike other aspects of cognitive function, emotions have never been readily confinable to one hemisphere.
Nobel lecture (1981)
They don't change the analytic, reductive methodology, just the interpretations and conclusions. There seems little to lose, and much to gain.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.
Genius Talk : Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries (1995)
Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably rather little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety.
Evolution of the Human Brain (1964)
One of the more important things to come out of the split-brain work, as an indirect spin-off, is a revised concept of the nature of consciousness and its fundamental relation to brain processing.
Nobel lecture (1981)
The mind-brain issues are intrinsically more compelling. They carry strong humanistic as well as scientific implications.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
Cognitive introspective psychology and related cognitive science can no longer be ignored experimentally, or written off as "a science of epiphenomena", nor either as something that must, in principle, reduce eventually to neurophysiology.
Nobel lecture (1981)
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.
Evolution of the Human Brain (1964)
When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
I think time will show that the new approach, emphasizing emergent "macro" control, is equally valid in all the physical sciences, and that the behavioral and cognitive disciplines are leading the way to a more valid framework for all science.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise ... Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.
Science and the Problem of Values (1972)
The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.
Science and the Problem of Values (1972)