Date: December 18, 1979
"The mind is like a parachute. It must be opened in order to work."
preview | full record— Endicott, William
Date: September, 1979
"Indeed, some philosophers have thought of intentional mental events as being inner, physical sentence (or symbol) tokens--a sort of brain writing."
preview | full record— Burge, Tyler (b. 1946)
Date: 1979
" But they can be sent along the usual channels […] until at some critical point, a "mental faucet" is closed, preventing them from actually being carried out."
preview | full record— Hofstadter, Douglas (b. 1945)
Date: 1979
"There's a party in my mind...And it never stops / There's a party up there all the time."
preview | full record— Byrne, David (b. 1952) and Jerry Harrison (b. 1949) [Talking Heads]
Date: 1980
"The back of the mind is a small hotel / And when the residents go on picnics / Or take buckets and spades down to the sea / The betrayals begin."
preview | full record— Longley, Michael (b. 1939)
Date: 1980
"Cause is the cement of the universe; the concept of cause is what holds together our picture of the universe, a picture that would otherwise disintegrate into a diptych of the mental and the physical."
preview | full record— Davidson, Donald (1917-2003)
Date: 1980
"What is thought after all, what is dreaming, but swim and flow, and the images they seem to animate?"
preview | full record— Robinson, Marilynne (b. 1943)
Date: 1980
"And here we find our greatest affinity with water, for like reflections on water our thoughts will suffer no changing shock, no permanent displacement."
preview | full record— Robinson, Marilynne (b. 1943)
Date: 1981
"What's my head but a rat's nest / of dubious texts?"
preview | full record— Harwood, Gwen (1920-1995)
Date: 1981
"When we introspect we do not perceive 'concepts' flowing through our minds as such. Stop the stream of thought when or where we will, what we catch are words, images, sensations, feelings."
preview | full record— Putnam, Hilary (b. 1926)