Architecture Quote 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…

— 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…

— Patricia Churchland

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

— Patricia Churchland

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

— 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…

— Patricia Churchland

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

— 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.…

— Patricia Churchland

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

— 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…

— Patricia Churchland

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

— 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…

— Patricia Churchland

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

— Patricia Churchland