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“Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.”

Way Kind Said Philosophy Might Stuff Views Brain Blood Majors Function Philosophical Foundation Bones Acknowledge Muscles Recognizing Kidneys Glands

Author:Homer Smith

“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”

Littles Brain Philosophical Privilege Peculiar Agitation Partiality

Book:The Philosophical Works

Source: The Philosophical Works

“The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.”

Humans Age Culture Brain Consciousness Universal Philosophical Fundamentals Available Human Brain

Author:John Hagelin

“I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.”

I Can Reading Bits Interesting Brain Possibility Theory Majors Aspect Philosophical Neuroscience Geek Discussing English Major Brain Science

Author:William Mapother

“Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.”

“These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.”

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

“The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.”

Humans Challenges Brain Study Disease Philosophical Remains Human Brain

Author:Floyd E. Bloom

“Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.”