Jaak Panksepp quotes

Jaak Panksepp quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.”
-- Jaak Panksepp

Source : Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven (2012). “The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions”, p.401, W. W. Norton & Company

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“Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic views of our evolved affective nature, is the kind of philosophical work that is essential for a field to move forward when ever-increasing findings from modern science are inconsistent with traditional philosophical arguments. This book is for all who wish to immerse themselves in the modern search for free will. It is steeped in the rich liqueur of current scientific and philosophical perspectives and delusions.”
-- Jaak Panksepp

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“The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.”
-- Jaak Panksepp

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“If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.”
“Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.”

Source : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1991). “Insights of a Himalayan pilgrim”, Dharma Pub
“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.”
“So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.”
“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”

Source : Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.
“It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.”
“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”
“Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.”
“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”
“Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.74

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