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Date: 1988
"Mind in its purest play is like some bat / That beats about in caverns all alone, / Contriving by a kind of senseless wit / Not to conclude against a wall of stone."
preview | full record— Wilbur, Richard (1921- )
Date: 1988
"Most of the mind is not a computer: most mental processes are not computations."
preview | full record— Mellor, D. H. (b. 1938)
Date: 1989
"Like trees similar in their gross physical profile, brains can be similar in their gross functional profiles while being highly idiosyncratic in the myriad details of their fine-grained arborization."
preview | full record— Churchland, Paul (b. 1942)
Date: 1992
"The kingdom of the mind, therefore, included not only human understanding and willing, but also human seeing, hearing, feeling, pain, and pleasure."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1992
"All of us, at one time or another, are inclined to think of the mind as an inner landscape, a more or less mysterious region which needs to be explored and mapped."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1992
"The geography of the mind is not a simple matter to discover, because its most basic features are a matter of dispute between philosophers. It cannot be explored simply by looking within ourselves at an inward landscape laid out to view"
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1992
"What we see when we take this inner look will be partly determined by the philosophical viewpoint from which we look, or, we might say, by the conceptual spectacles we may be wearing."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
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: 1992
"Surely the mind is not just a faculty: it is an immaterial and private world, the locus of our secret thoughts, the auditorium of our interior monologues, the theatre in which our dreams are staged and our plans rehearsed."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
