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> [If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/if-i-want-to-know-how-we-learn-and-remember-and-represent-the-world-i/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

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> [I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that philosophers are trying to figure out what is true, and that contemporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/i-had-no-idea-what-philosophy-was-until-i-went-to-college-at-ubc-i/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

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## More by Patricia Churchland

> [Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/studies-of-decision-making-in-the-monkey-where-activity-of-single/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/it-is-important-to-understand-that-while-oxytocin-may-be-the-hub-of/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/it-seems-probable-that-humans-have-been-on-the-planet-with-much-the/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/brains-are-not-magical-they-are-causal-machines/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/remember-in-the-heyday-of-vitalism-people-said-that-when-all-the-data/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/suppression-of-impulses-that-would-put-you-in-danger-is-obviously-an/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [Early studies of sleep and dreaming were crucially dependent on waking subjects up during sleep to find out whether they are dreaming or not.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/early-studies-of-sleep-and-dreaming-were-crucially-dependent-on/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/when-that-theory-is-isolated-from-known-facts-it-is-likely-not-to-be/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/i-used-to-suspect-that-in-the-brain-time-is-its-own-representation-i/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/i-am-less-attracted-to-guesses-about-what-cannot-be-done-than-about/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/analyzing-a-concept-can-perhaps-tell-you-what-the-concept-means-at/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/humility-bids-us-to-take-ourselves-as-we-are-we-do-not-have-to-be/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/i-made-the-assumption-wrong-of-course-that-conceptual-analysis-was-a/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/when-philosophers-try-to-understand-consciousness-much-of-what-they/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

> [If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-churchland/if-you-give-up-because-you-announce-the-phenomenon-cannot-be/)

[Patricia Churchland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-churchland/)

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