Patricia Churchland

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Patricia Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a Canadian-American philosopher.

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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.
  • Introductory message at her homepage at the University of California, San Diego

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• Conscious awareness is what a certain complexity of neuronal firings feels like in much the same way that temperature is the subejctive experience of molecular motion.
  • paraphrased

[edit] External links

• Patricia S. Churchland's Homepage
• Patricia Churchland entry from the Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind
• Radio interview on Philosophy Talk
• Article in the New Yorker (12 February 2007)
• InConversation Radio Interview with Robyn Williams (1 March 2007)