Date: 2007
"Cognitive scientists sometimes make the analogy that the brain is like a computer’s CPU, or hardware, while the mind is like the programs or software running on the CPU."
preview | full record— Daniel J. Levitin (1957 - )
Date: May 20, 2008
"So when you call I'm pressin' seven / Don't wanna hear your messages messages / I'm tryna erase you from my mind."
preview | full record— McCartney, Jesse (b. 1987); Ezekiel Lewis, Balewa Muhammad, Candice Nelson, Brian Kennedy, Sean Smith
Date: 2008
"In a sense, the mind works like a flashlight: When you point a flashlight at an object in a dark room, that object emerges from the darkness, as if coming into existence."
preview | full record— Somov, Pavel G.
Date: July-August, 2008
"When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating 'like clockwork.'"
preview | full record— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)
Date: July-August, 2008
"Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them [our brains] as operating 'like computers.'"
preview | full record— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)
Date: July-August, 2008
"The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive."
preview | full record— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)
Date: 2009
"Eliot closes his eyes and sorts through the database of biblical references that he jammed into his brain during his days as a somewhat-more-devout young man."
preview | full record— Konstantinou, Lee
Date: May 17, 2010
"It's the mind as problem-solving device, almost as calculator, though it is, of course, most drawn to problems that cannot be solved."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: 2010
"But Carter had been plucked straight off death row and landed here in less than a day: his mind would be tumbling like a dryer."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: February 15, 2011
"In other words, natural memory is the hardware you’re born with. Artificial memory is the software you run on it."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua