Date: June 12, 2015

"Time spent leisurely exploring my mind's interior right now is absolutely time wasted."

— Heritage, Stuart

Date: June 12, 2015

"If the unconscious mind was as well-oiled as the authors claim, then surely mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy wouldn't have needed to be invented."

— Heritage, Stuart

Date: June 18, 2015

"This was not an unthinkable act. A man may have had a rat's nest for a mind, but it was well thought out. It was a cool, considered crime, as well planned as any bank robbery or any computer fraud."

— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)

Date: June 3, 2015

"After the first two months, my feelings tsunami subsided."

— Sicha, Choire

Date: July 3, 2015

"Our conversations with Mr. Docter and his team were generally about the science related to questions at the heart of the film: How do emotions govern the stream of consciousness? How do emotions color our memories of the past?"

— Keltner, Dacher, and Paul Ekman

Date: June 27, 2015

"Descartes thought that the brain was a kind of hydraulic pump, propelling the spirits of the nervous system through the body."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)

Date: June 27, 2015

"Freud compared the brain to a steam engine."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)

Date: June 27, 2015

"The neuroscientist Karl Pribram likened it to a holographic storage device."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)

Date: June 27, 2015

"Many neuroscientists today would add to this list of failed comparisons the idea that the brain is a computer -- just another analogy without a lot of substance."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)

Date: June 27, 2015

"Often, when scientists resist the idea of the brain as a computer, they have a particular target in mind, which you might call the serial, stored-program machine."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)