"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."

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

Patricia Churchland

#Psychology Quotes #Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.”
“The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.”
“I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...”
“The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”
“You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration”
“Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.”
“Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.118, Dial Press
“There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.”

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