"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."

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

Patricia Churchland

#Brain Quotes #Levels Quotes #States Quotes

“There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.”
“I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.”
“How you start your day is how you live your day.”

Source : "The Power of Receiving". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, emergingwomen.com.
“The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.”
“Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.”
“If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.”

Source : Susan Howe (1993). “The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History”, p.47, Wesleyan University Press
“The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.”

Source : Thomas Cooper (1830). “A treatise on the law of libel and the liberty of the press: showing the origin, use, and abuse of the law of libel”, p.9
“Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.”

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