Choose your top three favorite quotes from podcast 275. If you have a favorite quote not listed vote “other” and reply to this thread with the quote and time during the podcast that it was said. Have fun!
Honorable Mention List:
“The extra star in the solar system and the magnetic pole switching probably the biggest science fail on TV in the last year.” Chuck 18:00
“You know what I’d pay big money for if they did with Mass Effect 3? Is just somewhere gave you a little picture of what Tali looks like without her helmet.” Sean 51:32
“I usually describe myself as a non-fiction writer who happens to write about science.” George Johnson 60:22
“While you’re sitting here listening to this lecture your brain is physically changing” George Johnson 61:52
“When you get down to actually trying to come up with some correspondence between the synaptic changes and the links and the little circuits and actual memory, it’s just hard to know how you’d even approach that question.” George Johnson 67:33
“You really can’t ever understand memory on a really deep level until you understand how consciousness arises from the human brain.” George Johnson 71:12
“There’s also a difference between learning facts, what they call declarative memory, and then operational memory where you learn how to do something.” George Johnson 74:23
“It’s only a matter of time I suppose and then the machines will write the books in the first place and I’ll be out of a job.” George Johnson 79:55
“What we have in our head is basically our reality. It’s our model or picture of the world” George Johnson 75:26
“We hear that your brain cells are dying all the time and yet the memories generally endure.” George Johnson 78:45