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Ed Boyden: belief

10 Apr 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain

“If you say, can we understand the brain in terms of chemical underpinnings, I would say yes.”

— Ed Boyden

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Ed Boyden
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
10 Apr 2019
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Ultimately, do you believe in reductionism — that what is the brain can be understood by physical science, and by materials, and by cause and effect the way we would understand, say, a computer? If you say, can we understand the brain in terms of chemical underpinnings, I would say yes. And consciousness?…

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