Paul Churchland
A philosopher of mind known for his work on eliminative materialism, arguing that folk psychology concepts will eventually be replaced by neuroscience.
Quotes by Paul Churchland
Folk psychology survives because it is useful, not because it is true.
Consciousness emerges from the global state of the brain.
Emotions are adaptive mechanisms encoded in neural networks.
There is no soul separate from the body; the soul is the body.
Prototypes, not definitions, are how the brain categorizes the world.
Theoretical terms like 'belief' may one day be eliminated from our ontology.
Reason is the engine of the brain's vehicle.
Free will is compatible with determinism at the neural level.
Love is a neurochemical cascade.
The Cartesian dualism is a myth we must outgrow.
Connectionist models reveal the brain's parallel processing power.
Psychology's concepts are ripe for neuroscientific revision.
The soul's seat is the brain's vast network.
Memories are reconstructions, not recordings.
Happiness is a state of balanced neural harmony.
Identity persists through neural continuity.
Learning is synaptic strengthening.
Believing is seeing, neurally speaking.
The mind's eye is the brain's visual cortex.
Aging is the slow degradation of neural pathways.