Date: 1984
"Like, I own your brain and what you know, but your thoughts have Swiss citizenship."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1992
"The mind--considered as intellect and will together--is, if all goes well, supreme in the human soul; but neither intellect nor will is an autocratic emperor; rather, they are joint consuls on the model of the Roman Republic."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: February 2003
"The primaries and the early events in an election would correspond roughly to the preliminary unconscious processing. The winning coalition associated with an object or event would correspond to the winning party, which would remain in power for some time and would attempt to influence and contr...
preview | full record— Crick, Francis (1916-2004) and Christof Koch (b. 1956)
Date: April 25, 2011
"The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, 'encased in darkness and silence,' at a lofty remove from brute reality. Messengers stream in from every corner of the sensory kingdom, bringing word of distant sights, ...
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard