I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.
Patricia ChurchlandWhen that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.
Patricia ChurchlandEventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit.
Patricia ChurchlandIt seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.
Patricia Churchland