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
"The neurologist made the brain sound more rickety than the old toy trucks Mark used to assemble from discarded cabinet parts and sawn-off detergent bottles."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"'What we think of as a single, simple process,' Weber wrote, 'is in fact a long assembly line. Vision requires careful coordination between thirty-two or more separate brain modules. Recognizing a face takes at least two dozen.'"
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"He knew the drill: throughout history, the brain had been compared to the highest prevailing level of technology: steam engine, telephone switchboard, computer."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"Now, as Weber approached his own professional zenith, the brain became the Internet, a distributed network, more than two hundred modules in loose, mutually modifying chatter with other modules."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"He stumbled through an answer that had once been automatic: The brain was not a machine, not a car engine, not a computer."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"More generally, the amygdala acts as a radar for the brain, calling attention to whatever might be new, puzzling, or important to learn more about."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: 2007
"If Belinda's mind is like a whirligig of fashion or a camera obscura, where moving images are cast upon a blank surface umediated by a reflective or critical presence, then Pope supplies the ekphrasis suitable for such machinery."
preview | full record— Lamb, Jonathan (b. 1945)