Patricia Churchland

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TETrust in Experience

  9 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  7 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Andy ClarkTOUCHSTONE

  Extended mind — cognition leaks out into pen, paper, and phone.

• Anil SethTOUCHSTONE

  Being You — perception as a controlled hallucination.

• Alva NoëTOUCHSTONE

  Out of Our Heads — perception is what we do, not what we have.

• Ruth MillikanTOUCHSTONE

  Biosemantics — content as evolved proper function.

• Susan HaackTOUCHSTONE

  Foundherentism — knowledge like a crossword, not a pyramid.

• Karl FristonCARTOGRAPHER

  Free energy principle — minds as inference engines minimizing surprise.

Concepts where Patricia Churchland sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Consciousness
  Why is there something it's like to be you? Why isn't the lights-on, no-one-home alternative just as physically possible?

Short exercises in the same tradition as Patricia Churchland's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Fallacy hunt →

  Pick a real argument from the wild and find three reasoning errors in it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.