Date: 1984
"Case felt as though his brain were jammed."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1984
"Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1985
"In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe."
preview | full record— Delillo, Don (b. 1936)
Date: 1989
"we all rose / every black one of us still alive / and went to meet that man / the same man who had erased our blackboard, crashed our computer heads, / burned our books and cooked our elders in superstitions and trivial / remembrances slave traders called fairytales from when massa was animals"
preview | full record— Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947)
Date: 1999
"Thus, in psychology, the computer serves as a model of the mind as conceived by empiricists such as Hume (with the bits as atomic impressions) and idealists such as Kant (with the program providing the rules)."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"Thus the view that the brain as a general-purpose symbol-manipulating device operates like a digital computer is an empirical hypothesis which has had its day."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"Whether the brain operates like a computer is a strictly empirical question to be settled by neurophysiology."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"No such simple answer can be given to the related but quite different question: whether the mind functions like a digital computer, that is, whether one is justified in using a computer model in psychology."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"In fact, the same empirical evidence presented for the assumption that the mind functions like a digital computer tends, when considered without making this assumption, to show that the assumption is empirically untenable."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"In the absence of any empirical or a priori argument that such a formalism for processing physical inputs does or must exist, and given the empirical evidence that the brain functions like an analogue computer, there is no reason to suppose and every reason to doubt that the processing of...
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)