Quote by John Rogers Searle

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the…

— George F. R. Ellis

“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept depends on…

— Nick Bostrom

“In fact, the belief that neurophysiology is even relevant to the functioning of the mind is just hypothesis. Who knows if we're looking at…

— Noam Chomsky

“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.”

— Robert Sapolsky

“All our modern “scientistic” presuppositions may tell us that mind must be entirely a mechanical function or residue of the brain’s neuronal processes, but…

— David Bentley Hart

“our brains are happy to fill in the blanks with causal relationships that don't really exist.”

— David DiSalvo

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

— S.F. Chapman

“I have thus defined the concept of the “Background” as the set of nonintentional or preintentional capacities that enable intentional states of function. But”

— John Rogers Searle

“I am simply the expression of Neuroscience itself.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

— Corliss Lamont

“Perceptual fields are limited by the attractor patterns that they're associated with. This means that the capacity to recognize significant factors in a given…

— David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D

“Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.”

— Steve Martin