Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.
Eric KandelLife is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.
Eric KandelIn art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.
Eric KandelNot only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.
Eric KandelI really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.
Eric KandelThe task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.
Eric Kandel