"Mental space is larger than anyone can think."
— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Picador
Date
2006
Metaphor
"Mental space is larger than anyone can think."
Metaphor in Context
Dr. Weber wrote:
Mental space is larger than anyone can think. A single brain's 100 billion cells make thousands of connections each. The strength and nature of these connections changes every time use triggers them. Any given brain can put itself into more unique states than there are elementary particles in the universe ... If you were to ask a random group of neuroscientists how much we know about how the brain forms the self, the best would have to answer, "Almost nothing."
(pp. 93)
Mental space is larger than anyone can think. A single brain's 100 billion cells make thousands of connections each. The strength and nature of these connections changes every time use triggers them. Any given brain can put itself into more unique states than there are elementary particles in the universe ... If you were to ask a random group of neuroscientists how much we know about how the brain forms the self, the best would have to answer, "Almost nothing."
(pp. 93)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker (New York: Picador, 2006).
Date of Entry
06/08/2015
