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Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology QUOTES

Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology QUOTES

1 " The lengths that post-analytical philosophers of mind have gone to in order to avoid acknowledging contents of consciousness have been extraordinary. "

― Raymond Tallis , Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology

2 " Neurophilosophers have made it a matter of honour even to deny the existence of such things as beliefs, desires, and so on.[ "

― Raymond Tallis , Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology

3 " Qualia are difficult, propositional attitudes are difficult, selves are difficult, so away they must go: they cannot be accommodated in the third-person neurophilosophical framework that combines scientism with an analytical outlook that prefers concepts to consciousness, placing consciousness-free language at the heart of the human mind.[ "

― Raymond Tallis , Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology

4 " The assumption that ‘if science can’t see it, then it is isn’t real’ has nothing to do with science and everything to do with ‘scientism’—belief in the ‘omnicompetence of science’;[30] more precisely, in the omnicompetence of a sub-set of sciences—the natural, rather than the social, sciences "

― Raymond Tallis , Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology