"When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description."

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

Patricia Churchland

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“There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.”

Source : Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.71, Delta
“It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.”
“Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.”

Source : Time Out, December 12, 2001.
“The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.”
“One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.”
“We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.”

Source : "Freed Burmese Democrat Is Conciliatory". www.nytimes.com. July 12, 1995.
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”
“We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.”

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