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" The errors of muddling correlation with causation, necessary condition with sufficient causation, and sufficient causation with identity lie at the heart of the neuromaniac’s basic assumption that consciousness and nerve impulses are one and the same, and that (to echo a commonly used formulation) “the mind is a creation of the brain”. "

Raymond Tallis , Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity


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Raymond Tallis quote : The errors of muddling correlation with causation, necessary condition with sufficient causation, and sufficient causation with identity lie at the heart of the neuromaniac’s basic assumption that consciousness and nerve impulses are one and the same, and that (to echo a commonly used formulation) “the mind is a creation of the brain”.