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The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.

— Eric Kandel The Age of Insight (2012)

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The life of a biological scientist in the United States is a life of discussion and debate—it is the Talmudic tradition writ large.

In Search of Memory (2006)

As knowledge advances and scientific disciplines change, so do the disciplines impinging on them.

Each sensory system first analyzes and deconstructs, then restructures the raw, incoming information to its own built-in connections and rules—shades of Immanuel Kant.

In Search of Memory (2006)

Libet could predict what a person would do before the person was actually aware of having decided to do it.

In Search of Memory (2006)

It spawned an ongoing pursuit to link these disciplines.

The Age of Insight (2012)

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