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Date: 2006
"The metaphor I use when I lecture on Freud is to think of the mind as a horse and buggy (a Victorian chariot) in which the driver (the ego) struggles frantically to control a hungry, lustful, and disobedient horse (the id) while the driver's father (the superego) sits in the back seat lecturing ...
preview | full record— Haidt, Jonathan
Date: 2006
"When people looked for metaphors, they saw the mind as the driver of a car, or as a program running on a computer."
preview | full record— Haidt, Jonathan
Date: 2006
"This gut brain is like a regional administrative center that handles stuff the head brain does not need to bother with."
preview | full record— Haidt, Jonathan
Date: 2006
"Just as a military leader might blow up a bridge to prevent an enemy from crossing it, Bogen wanted to sever the corpus callosum to prevent the seizures from spreading."
preview | full record— Haidt, Jonathan
Date: 2006
"The brain started off with just three rooms, or clumps of neurons: a hindbrain (connected to the spinal column), a midbrain, and a forebrain (connected to the sensory organs at the front of the animal)."
preview | full record— Haidt, Jonathan
Date: 2006
"Whichever end of that range you favor, language, reasoning, and conscious planning arrived in the most recent eye-blink of evolution. They are like new software, Rider version 1.0."
preview | full record— Haidt, Jonathan
Date: 2006
"That he could enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Cormac (b. 1933)
Date: 2006
"Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Cormac (b. 1933)
Date: December 23, 2006
"Twentieth-century intellectuals can be defined by two extremes: the Paul Valéry types who made their discoveries in the abstract laboratory of their minds and the Graham Greene and Ernest Hemingway types who made their discoveries while drunk in brothels in countries where the president had just...
preview | full record— Moroney, Robin
Date: 2006
"The brain is a mind-boggling redesign. But it can't escape its past. [...] She pictured those mangled Kearney mansions, glorious old wooden Victorians enlarged with brick in the 1930s and again in the 1970s with pressboard and aluminum."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
