Date: 1992
"Now it would be folly to deny that human beings can keep their thoughts secret, can talk to themselves without making any noise, can sketch figures before their mind's eye instead of on pieces of paper."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1995, 2002
"However, as I said last night, we just ask for this because most of us consider ourselves as chauffeurs inside our bodies, which we own in the same way as we own a car. When it goes wrong we take it to the mechanic to fix it and we do not really identify with our body, just as we do not really i...
preview | full record— Watts, Alan (1915-1973)
Date: 1999
"But fiction is not empirical truth. It is simulation that runs on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers."
preview | full record— Oatley, Keith
Date: 2000
"Discussions in the inner forum of an individual mind naturally duplicate in form and structure the public adversarial discussions"
preview | full record— Hampshire, Stuart (1914-2004)
Date: 2000
"The public situations that I have mentioned give rise to corresponding mental processes which are modeled on the public procedures, as a shadowy movement on a ceiling is modeled on an original physical movement on the floor."
preview | full record— Hampshire, Stuart (1914-2004)
Date: 2000
"I suggest that the Cartesian paradigm should be reversed, and that the paradigmatic setting and circumstance of intellectual thought is not the solitary meditation by the stove but the public argument for and against some claim made: the supposition is that we learn to transfer, by a kind of mim...
preview | full record— Hampshire, Stuart (1914-2004)