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Date: August 6, 2009

"But they [lies] do not prevent us from seeking the truth, from looking outside our mental prisons and trying to uncover the true nature of the world that surrounds us."

— Morris, Errol (b. 1948)

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Date: August 3, 2009

"And I say, then your mind starts running, if you have a kaleidoscope mind like I do."

— Weiner, Michael [Michael Savage] (b. 1942)

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Date: December 21, 2009

"The resulting mental freeze-frames are remarkably diverse."

— Hoffman, Jascha

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Date: December 29, 2009

"We have to crack the cognitive egg and scramble it up."

— Strauch, Barbara

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Date: Summer 2009

"It is in this sense that the first-personal perspective is strictly unavoidable: I am not a passenger on a vessel pulled hither and yon by impulses and desires; I have to steer."

— Pippin, Robert B. (b. 1948)

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Date: Februrary 25, 2009

"He thinks that discourses are 'established conventions' and that language is a resource which constrains what can be said – as if words were ill-fitting clothes within which thoughts are confined."

— Wootton, David

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Date: March 31, 2009

"Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology--including, at one point, telephone switchboards."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam

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Date: March 31, 2009

"Today people talk about brains as if they were a sort of biological computer, with pink mushy 'hardware' and 'software' generated by life experiences."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam

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Date: March 31, 2009

"Our colleague David Linden has compared the evolutionary history of the brain to the task of building a modern car by adding parts to a 1925 Model T that never stops running."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam

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Date: March 31, 2009

"As smart as we are, in this sense we are all dim bulbs."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.