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Date: May 7, 2012

"When I'm balanced on two thin wheels at 30 miles an hour, gauging distance, adjusting course, making hundreds of unconscious calculations every second, that idiot chatterbox in my head is kept too busy to get a word in."

— Kreider, Tim (b. 1967)

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Date: May 3, 2012

"A brain is not a computer. We are not blank hard drives waiting to be filled with data."

— Brooks, David (b. 1961)

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Date: May 6, 2012

"But the psychological cloud can remain for a while, like a miasma."

— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)

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Date: June 24, 2012

"For all its apparent fidelity, the movie in our heads is a 'Rashomon' narrative pieced together from inconsistent and unreliable bits of information."

— Stone, Alex

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Date: June 26, 2012

"Spivak has a mind like a searchlight, yet she works at Mozartian speed."

— Choudhury, Uttara

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Date: August 2012

"My mother treated these eruptions like outbreaks of bad weather, waiting them out under some mysterious mental shelter."

— Roth, Marco (b. 1974)

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Date: August 2012

"My father tried turning his thoughts into a substitute immune system."

— Roth, Marco (b. 1974)

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Date: September 17, 2012

"Our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind."

— Gottlieb, Anthony

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Date: September 17, 2012

"This mind is regarded as a set of software modules that were written by natural selection and now constitute a universal human nature. We are, in short, all running apps from Fred Flintstone's not-very-smartphone."

— Gottlieb, Anthony

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Date: 2012

"Peirce was an intellectual Swiss Army knife. Mathematics, logic, philosophy, science, semiotics—whatever the discipline, he could slice through it with his nimble, creative mind."

— McCabe, Bret

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