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- Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic…
- I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only…
- Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
- Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it…
- The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one…
- In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the…
- With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner,…
- The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
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