Why the Mind Is Not a Computer Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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