Brain Quote by Patricia Churchland

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have…

— Patricia Churchland

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

— Siri Hustvedt

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have…

— Tony Hoare

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

— Sherry Turkle

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

— Paul Allen

“When you get down to it, our brains are essentially computers that are programmed in certain ways, take in data, and spit out instructions.…

— Ray Dalio

Your philosophies create the software of your brain.

— Nick Vedros

Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.

— Paul Allen

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

— Timothy Leary

“I was enraptured by the brain and how it could misfire, but it wasn’t just the hardware that intrigued me, it was the software…

— Julie Holland

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks…

— Thomas Nagel