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Date: January 21, 2015
"Why aren't we just brilliant robots, capable of retaining information, of responding to noises and smells and hot saucepans, but dark inside, lacking an inner life?"
preview | full record— Burkeman, Oliver (b. 1975)
Date: January 21, 2015
"Evolution might have produced creatures that were atom-for-atom the same as humans, capable of everything humans can do, except with no spark of awareness inside."
preview | full record— Burkeman, Oliver (b. 1975)
Date: January 21, 2015
"Yet there's no reason to assume that our brains will be adequate vessels for the voyage towards that answer."
preview | full record— Burkeman, Oliver (b. 1975)
Date: May-June, 2017
"Memories continually change through repeated recollection, yet their tendency over time is to a reduction which mirrors that of photography--like a stack of snapshots repeatedly returned to. Such memories become archetypal crystallizations of identity--slides in the carousel of the mind."
preview | full record— Stallabrass, Julian (b. March 16, 1960)
Date: May-June, 2017
"A full recollection--say of a person--almost always involves some visual re-experiencing of expressions, gestures and bearing, some of which are held frozen in the mind."
preview | full record— Stallabrass, Julian (b. March 16, 1960)
Date: May-June, 2017
"Moreover, traumatic events are more likely to be mentally stilled: people who have undergone severe traumas may have flashbacks as isolated pictures, while they recall ordinary events in a narrative manner."
preview | full record— Stallabrass, Julian (b. March 16, 1960)
Date: May-June, 2017
"Describing the phenomena as 'flashbulb memories', Brown and Kulik found that episodic and source memory appeared tightly enmeshed, so that subjects vividly recalled not just the event, but where and how they came to know it. Such recollections also seemed to have a strong affinity with the still...
preview | full record— Stallabrass, Julian (b. March 16, 1960)
Date: 2017
"Working with sound and my imagination, I envisage the angles and cuts, making the only substantial films I can manage these days, mind movies."
preview | full record— Kureishi, Hanif (b. 1954)
Date: 2017
"Your mind resembles a roaring wind tunnel."
preview | full record— Kureishi, Hanif (b. 1954)
Date: February 11, 2019
"You can't take your eyes off his eyes--blue and unblinking, as he confronts the world like a camera with the shutter left open, permitting the images to burn into his brain."
preview | full record— Lane, Anthony (b. 1962)
