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

Patricia Churchland

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.

Patricia Churchland

Patricia Churchland

Patricia Churchland

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Born: July 16, 1943 (age 82)

Bio: Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American analytical philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind.

Known for:

Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves (2013)
Brain-Wise (2002)
The Computational Brain (1992)

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