Patricia Churchland Quotes

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.