Date: May 23, 1993
"'Your mind,' Admiral Crowe likes to tell university students, 'is a lot like a parachute -- it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it.'"
preview | full record— Rosenberg, David Alan
Date: November 8, 1994
"I thought this is some terrific computer down here."
preview | full record— Blakeslee, Sandra
Date: February 8, 1996
"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)
Date: February 8, 1996
"These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)
Date: February 8, 1996
"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)
Date: 1998
"Jennifer Tilly plays Violet, a mob wife, prostitute, and femme with a steel-trap mind, and Gina Gershon plays Corky, Violet's ex-con lover."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: 1999
"Thus, in psychology, the computer serves as a model of the mind as conceived by empiricists such as Hume (with the bits as atomic impressions) and idealists such as Kant (with the program providing the rules)."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"Thus the view that the brain as a general-purpose symbol-manipulating device operates like a digital computer is an empirical hypothesis which has had its day."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"Whether the brain operates like a computer is a strictly empirical question to be settled by neurophysiology."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"No such simple answer can be given to the related but quite different question: whether the mind functions like a digital computer, that is, whether one is justified in using a computer model in psychology."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)