Date: 1992
"Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1995
"In what way is the mind like a computer that is different from its resemblance, for example, to a telephone switchboard (which was the most popular image in psychology some years ago), or to a cathedral, which once long ago was also a major poetical image (consider: the caverns of the mind, the ...
preview | full record— Shipley, Thorne (1927-2009)
Date: July 23, 1995
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free."
preview | full record— Smith, Chuck
Date: 1997
"The dominant alternative to the Cartesian perspective is exemplified by the theoretical claim that the mind is like the sort of 'computation' that takes place in electronic computers. In simpler terms, minds are software (programs) run on the hardware (neural circuits) of the brain."
preview | full record— Deacon, Terrence W.
Date: 1998
"Vernon slumped with his tea while his mental odometer tallied the insults and humiliations."
preview | full record— McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)
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)
Date: 1999
"In fact, the same empirical evidence presented for the assumption that the mind functions like a digital computer tends, when considered without making this assumption, to show that the assumption is empirically untenable."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)