Fiction/categories

Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or categories:

    “If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”
    —William Gass (b. 1924)

    “The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”
    —Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)