Patricia Churchland: You Are Your Brain

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Patricia Churchland: You Are Your Brain

You Are Your Brain
Why is neuroexistentialism so disturbing?
By Graham Lawton
New Scientist
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/12/the_self_as_brain_disturbing_implications_of_neuroexistentialism.html

Patricia Churchland, a neurophilosopher at the University of California at San Diego, says our hopes, loves and very existence are just elaborate functions of a complicated mass of grey tissue. Accepting that can be hard, but what we know should inspire us, not scare us. Her most recent book is Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain.  ...



Alex's comment:  Common sense.  Naturalism.  常識。自然主義。