Patricia Churchland Quotes

• Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

  Patricia Churchland

  Brain, Machines

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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

  Patricia Churchland

  Progress, Done, Problem

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Si te rindes porque anuncias que el fenómeno no tiene explicación, te lo estás perdiendo.

  Patricia Churchland

  Giving Up, Missing, Phenomenon

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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

  Patricia Churchland

  Humility, Significant

  "Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy". Book by Patricia Churchland, 2002.

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• Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

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  Meaningful, Atheist, Caring

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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.

  Patricia Churchland

  Understanding, Brain, Mind

  "Morality and the Brain". brainworldmagazine.com. January 24, 2014.

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• Parece que el cerebro tiene una arquitectura de "mundo pequeño", o al menos el córtex. Todo puede conectarse con todo lo demás en unos pocos pasos sinápticos.

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  Brain, Doe, World

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Patricia Churchland

  Facts, Theory, Isolated

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Si quieres comprender la naturaleza de algo, descubrir la verdad, eso es una cosa. Otra cosa es jugar a la semántica e inventar "experimentos" descabellados. A mí no me interesa tanto esto último, aunque entiendo que puede ser divertido, aunque improductivo.

  Patricia Churchland

  Fun, Play, Appreciate

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.

  Patricia Churchland

  Self, Analysis, Assumption

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

  Patricia Churchland

  Brain, Levels, States

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Conocer las bases neurobiológicas y evolutivas del comportamiento social puede suavizar la arrogancia y la autojustificación que suelen acompañar a los debates sobre moralidad. Puede ayudarnos a todos a pensar con un poco más de cuidado y racionalidad.

  Patricia Churchland

  Pensar, Ser, Saber

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

  Patricia Churchland

  Psychology, Brain, Mind

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Si quiero saber cómo aprendemos y recordamos y representamos el mundo, acudiré a la psicología y la neurociencia. Si quiero saber de dónde vienen los valores, acudiré a la biología evolutiva, la neurociencia y la psicología, como habrían hecho Aristotle y Hume, si estuvieran vivos.

  Patricia Churchland

  Psychology, Alive, World

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

  Patricia Churchland

  Knowing, Understanding, Progress

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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

  Patricia Churchland

  Track, Philosopher, Consciousness

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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

  Patricia Churchland

  Years, Brain, Planets

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Analizar un concepto puede (tal vez) decirle lo que el concepto significa (al menos significa para algunos filósofos), pero no le dice nada acerca de si el concepto es cierto de cualquier cosa en el mundo.

  Patricia Churchland

  Mean, Doe, World

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

  Patricia Churchland

  Sleep, Hands, Differences

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Patricia Churchland

  Important, Danger, Function

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Cuando los filósofos intentan comprender la conciencia, gran parte de lo que pretenden no es en absoluto análisis conceptual, aunque pueda venderse bajo esa descripción.

  Patricia Churchland

  Trying, Analysis, May

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still know nothing about the life force - about the basic difference between being alive and not being alive.

  Patricia Churchland

  Cells, Data, Differences

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• No tenía ni idea de lo que era la filosofía hasta que fui a la universidad en la UBC. Primero leí a Hume y Plato, así que naturalmente tenía la idea errónea de que los filósofos intentan averiguar qué es verdad, y que los filósofos contemporáneos intentan sobre todo averiguar qué es verdad sobre la mente. Por supuesto que Hume y Plato intentaban hacer eso, de ahí mi malentendido.

  Patricia Churchland

  Plato, Philosophy, College

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part of a very complex system. Part of what it does is act in opposition to stress hormones, and in that sense release of oxytocin feels good - as stress hormones and anxiety do not feel good.

  Patricia Churchland

  Stress, Oxytocin, Feel Good

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.

  Patricia Churchland

  Decision, Movement, Neurons

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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