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

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

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 trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

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

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

Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.