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“... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it.”
Michael Crichton“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.”
István Aranyosi, The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System“Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other“I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.”
Steven Wright“These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them”
David Hurn“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.”
Sylvia Plath“You're from the future, Mr Netherton?""Not exactly," he said. "I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.”
William Gibson, The Peripheral“The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.”
John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School“If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.”
Richard Attenborough“What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.”
Sydney Pollack