“Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.”

Session 280
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 6

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: "All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."
"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 16

Source: On Human Communication (1957), On Cognition and Recognition, p. 302

Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Development of negatives, p. 106

No. 48.
Aphorisms (1930)

Nobel lecture (1981)
Context: One of the more important things to come out of the split-brain work, as an indirect spin-off, is a revised concept of the nature of consciousness and its fundamental relation to brain processing. The key development here is a switch from prior non-causal, parallelist views to a new causal, or "interactionist" interpretation that ascribes to inner experience an integral causal control role in brain function and behavior. In effect, and without resorting to dualist views, the mental forces and properties of the conscious mind are restored to the brain of objective science from which they had long been excluded on materialist-behaviorist principles.

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 15 “Gaia-S” section 2, p. 302