Patricia Churchland

Patricia Churchland’s explanation of our senses is pretty elementary when explaining that one neuron is not solely responsible for our sense of falling in love, but a plethora of neurons that develop that sensation of falling in love. Minimizing that we as humans are just the brain, just the functioning of molecular movement, that our brain is what controls everything and gives us the perspectives that we see. In a way it makes sense, each head, brain, is its own world. But then when she talks about morality, who knows what, is moral? Morality again falls within the realm of what that individual head has been exposed to and believes. Just like the Dali Lama asking top intellectuals to explain the brain in order for him to think about things more wisely. His religion of Buddhism, which explains how to live a life with compassion and honesty but did not touch on the fact of the creation of the world or is the mind is separate of the body. Even the best explanation of the brains function does not help with discovering what moral system is the most appropriate or make us any wiser in making decisions in life. Patricia Churchland’s explanation of how God is debunked from existence and the originator of function by pointing to the discovery of DNA and how very complex molecules work together is not a very good one. How did these very complex and fragile structure of DNA and how do the complex molecules know how to interact with one another come in to existence and function in such an orderly manner?