Quotes about Information Processing

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas. Votes: 3

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. Votes: 3

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events. Votes: 3

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies. Votes: 3

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. Votes: 3

Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular. Votes: 3

It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company. Votes: 3

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently. Votes: 2

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work. Votes: 2

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior. Votes: 2

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it. Votes: 2

Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process. Votes: 2

I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime. Votes: 2

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. Votes: 2

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. Votes: 2

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating. Votes: 2

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. Votes: 2

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. Votes: 2

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately. Votes: 2

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. Votes: 2

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information. Votes: 2

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. Votes: 2

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom. Votes: 2

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books. Votes: 2

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. Votes: 2

What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information to, so many points in the brain, with a computational infrastructure in between - a computer that can process the information and compute exactly what needs to be restored. Votes: 2

The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being. Votes: 2

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, Votes: 0

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought. Votes: 0

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted. Votes: 0

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing. Votes: 0