Date: March 9, 2013
"Their noses and ears full of tufts of hair, their brains crackling with mental electricity, their flappy trousers hoiked biffin-tight, and their little odd socks showing, they reassured the hoi polloi that, although they were very clever, and we needed and valued them as a society, these people ...
preview | full record— Lee, Stewart (b. 1968)
Date: March 7, 2014
"For Kaku, the brain is a computer made of meat, and understanding the mind is just a really, really hard engineering problem."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)
Date: March 7, 2014
"Minds made of meat (ours) are just one of Kaku’s concerns."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)
Date: March 7, 2014
"If we treat minds like meat-computers, we may end up in a world where that’s the only aspect of their nature we perceive or value."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)
Date: May 12, 2014
"Now a growing stream of research suggests that strengthening this mental muscle, usually with exercises in so-called mindfulness, may help children and adults cope with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and its adult equivalent, attention deficit disorder."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: May 12, 2014
"For a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, they imaged the brains of meditators while they went through four basic mental movements: focusing on a chosen target, noticing that their minds had wandered, bringing their minds back to the target, and sustaining their focus there."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: June 12, 2015
"I have a short attention span generally, so I did everything I could to promote a wandering mind."
preview | full record— Heritage, Stuart
Date: June 12, 2015
"Time spent leisurely exploring my mind's interior right now is absolutely time wasted."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— Heritage, Stuart
Date: July 18, 2016
"Introspection, 'the mind's eye,' assures us with the greatest confidence that it is the best, in some cases the only authority on how the mind works, because we all think it has direct, first person access to itself."
preview | full record— Rosenberg, Alex (August 8, 1946)