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: 1997
"That the self is an immediate unity with itself, a Moebius-like entity, was an insight taken in several directions by thinkers after Fichte"
preview | full record— Peters, John Durham
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
"On its own this trigger, as we can see from the earlier definition, is not going to generate consciousness. Imagine a candyfloss machine with a stick in the centre that then gathers more and more candyfloss as time goes on. Think of the epicentre as the stick in the centre, the burgeoning candy...
preview | full record— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)
Date: 1999
"Another rather simplistic analogy might be a boss, at the centre of a big organization that is eventually going to recruit managers and submanagers. What in the brain could be the equivalent of the boss? The most obvious candidate, and one that might immediately spring to mind, is the basic comp...
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Date: 1999
"But fiction is not empirical truth. It is simulation that runs on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers."
preview | full record— Oatley, Keith
Date: 2001
"The spirals around the galactic core, the coin of hair over the drain, the mind looking down into itself--each formed by a hole it just barely avoids falling into."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"The mind notices it exists when it gets in its own way, as two strands have to get in each others' way to make a knot."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"Pebble, question, soul: no one can see all sides at once, but there is no side that cannot be seen."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"Same even with those cherished early memories: we call up a sketch, fill in the blanks, and store it again, changed."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)