Date: 1992
"If he was essentially a thinking machine, then he needed to be serviced."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Indigestion tablets, thought Victor, belching softly, to help break down the doughy bulk of sensation?"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Patrick knew he was not visible from the top of the stairs, but when he heard the footsteps pause he had tried to push back the idea of his father with concentration like a flamethrower. "
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"What I object to is that we turn ignorance into an inner landscape and pretend that this allegorical enterprise, which might be harmless or even charming, if it weren't so expensive and influential, amounts to a science."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Whenever she thought of what she was meant to say, it seemed to dash around the corner, and lose itself in the crowd of things she should not say. The most successful fugitives were often the dullest, the sentences that nobody notices until they are not spoken: 'How nice to see you...won't you s...
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: 1999
"Working memory has been called the 'chalkboard of the mind.'"
preview | full record— Siegel, Dan J. (b. 1957)
Date: 1999
"As the brain gets more complex in the womb, then, like a dimmer switch, consciousness gradually grows and burgeons until, of course, in adulthood it reaches its particular pinnacles or depths."
preview | full record— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)
Date: 1999
"On its own this trigger, as we can see from the earlier definition, is not going to generate consciousness. Imagine a candyfloss machine with a stick in the centre that then gathers more and more candyfloss as time goes on. Think of the epicentre as the stick in the centre, the burgeoning candy...
preview | full record— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)
Date: 1999
"Another rather simplistic analogy might be a boss, at the centre of a big organization that is eventually going to recruit managers and submanagers. What in the brain could be the equivalent of the boss? The most obvious candidate, and one that might immediately spring to mind, is the basic comp...
preview | full record— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)