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Date: October 31, 2011
"And then there were the experiments, each one a snapshot into the dark box of the brain."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: October 31, 2011
"In short, the brain sustains a sense of unity not just in the presence of its left and right co-pilots."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: October 31, 2011
"It does so amid a cacophony of competing voices, the neural equivalent of open outcry at the Chicago Board of Trade."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: October 31, 2011
"The brain’s cacophony of competing voices feels coherent because some module or network somewhere in the left hemisphere is providing a running narration."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: October 31, 2011
"The interpreter [the left-brain narrating system] creates the illusion of a meaningful script, as well as a coherent self."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: March 9, 2012
"If we acquire a bad habit this way it is very hard to change, because its grooves are so well worn in our minds."
preview | full record— Wilson, Timothy D.
Date: March 17, 2012
"It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles."
preview | full record— Bhattacharjee, Yudhijit
Date: April 15, 2012
"If the child's mind was a tabula rasa — a clean slate upon which, as Mao Zedong once put it, 'the most beautiful characters could be written' -- then a person's character and mind-set would not be immutable and God-given, but shaped and honed in the environment."
preview | full record— Smits, Rick
Date: May 7, 2012
"The fear gets released later on, while I'm falling asleep and near-misses replay themselves in my mind's eye like an endless computer game fraught with constant hazards, in which I'm a disembodied Steadicam hurtling through busy city streets at the same speed something falls, pedestrians appeari...
preview | full record— Kreider, Tim (b. 1967)
Date: May 7, 2012
"If you're anything like me, you probably spend the majority of your time either second-guessing the past or dreading the future, neither of which actually exists; having to navigate those teeming streets narrows the beam of my consciousness to the laser's width of the instant I actually inhabit."
preview | full record— Kreider, Tim (b. 1967)
