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  Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freud's theory of the unconscious, although impossible to prove empirically, has been widely accepted and has greatly influenced the popular understanding of the mind.
More recently, Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Gödel, Escher, Bach - an eternal Golden Braid", is a tour de force on the subject of mind, and how it might arise from the neurology of the brain.
Amongst other biological and cybernetic phenomena, Hofstadter places tangled loops and recursion at the center of Self, Self-awareness, and perception of oneself, and thus at the heart of Mind and thinking.
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is a 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder.
Based almost entirely on interviews with the family and friends of both Gilmore and his victims, the book is exhaustive in its approach.
(1979), which was adapted by Mailer for the 1982 television movie of the same name starring Tommy Lee Jones.
www.vergie.com /the_executioners_song.html   (772 words)

  
 Norman Mailer
(1968; Pulitzer Prize), is an account of the 1967 peace march on Washington, D.C., in the personalized style of the “new journalism.” Among his other journalistic works are
(1979, Pulitzer Prize), on the life and execution of killer Gary Gilmore.
(1972), R. Poirier (1972), J. Radford (1975), R. Merrill (1978, 1992), S. Cohen (1979), J. Lennon, ed.
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 April 16 Events in History
April 16, 1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
April 16, 1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
April 16, 1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
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