"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."

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

Patricia Churchland

#Understanding Quotes #Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.”
“As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."”

Source : Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.
“As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.”
“Know emptiness, Be compassionate.”
“I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.”
“..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.”
“I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.”

Source : "The unknown heart-throb". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2000.

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