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1 " We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists . . . who often confuse their religion with their science. "
― John C. Eccles , The Wonder of Being Human: Our Brain and Our Mind
2 " The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a category disjoint from the physical, we will never be able to get it back in. "
― William Hirstein , Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy
