If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to … - Patricia Churchland

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I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

Patricia Churchland

If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.

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