November 10, 2010

"Merely replacing Cartesian ethereal stuff with glutinous grey matter and leaving everything else the same will not solve any problems."


Just one sentence (another one titles this post) from James Garvey's interview with Peter Hacker:

"There is no such thing as a brain’s thinking, wanting, reasoning, believing or hypothesizing."

[emphasis in original]

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