文档介绍：Chapter8
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Reviewof PaulChurchland s TheEngine of Reason,
TheSeat of theSoul
[ W] e are now in a position to explain how our vivid sensoryexperience arises in
the sensory cortex of our brains . . . [and is] embodiedin a vast chorus of neural
activity . . . to explain how the [nervous system and the musculature] perform
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the cheetahs dash, the falcon s strike, or the ballerina s dying swan. . . . [ W] e can
now understand how the infant brain slowly developsa framework of concepts
. . . and how the matured brain deploys that framework almost instantaneously:
to recognizesimilarities , to grasp analogies, and to anticipate both the immediate
and the distant future.
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- Paul Church land, The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul, pp. 4 7
I do think that is of ProfessorChurch land. For one thing, none of
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it is true. We don t know how the brain deploys its concepts to achieve
and ; or how it develops them; or even what concepts
perception ' thought
are. We don t know how the motor system contrives the integration of
the lips, tongue, lungs, velum, and vocal cords in the routine utterance of
speech, to say nothing of special effects like the approximation of dying
swansby whole ballerinas. Nor do we know, even to a first glimmer, how
a brain (or anything else that is physical) could manageto be a locus of
conscious . This la