There are many levels of organization in nervous systems. Hence we aim to explain mechanisms at one level in terms of properties and dynamics at a lower level, and to fit that in with the properties at the higher levels.
Patricia ChurchlandI used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impressed by the experiments showing that on complex problems, subjects who are distracted do better in getting an answer than either those who answer immediately or those who spend time reflecting on the problem.
Patricia ChurchlandHumility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.
Patricia ChurchlandI am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.
Patricia Churchland