Patricia Churchland

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• Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was “the software, not the hardware”, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.
  • Introductory message at her homepage at the University of California, San Diego

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• Conscious awareness is what a certain complexity of neuronal firings feels like in much the same way that temperature is the subejctive experience of molecular motion.
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