names i can't seem to escape these days:

steven pinker
oliver sachs
daniel levitin
noam chomsky
sartre
pat metheny
david gilmour
steven levitt
stephen dubner
steven landsburg
(lots of stev(ph)ens!)
gestalt
descartes

mirrors again..."the guitar sound of pat metheny or david gilmore use multiple delays of the signal to give an otherworldly haunting effect that triggers parts of our brain in ways that humans had never experienced before, by simulating the sound of an enclosed cave with multiple echoes such as would never actually occur in the real world - an auditory equivalent of the barbershop mirrors that repeated infinitely"
-daniel levitin