# Understanding the Mind Requires More Than the Brain by Tania Lombrozo > “Rejecting the mind in an effort to achieve scientific legitimacy—a trend we've seen with both behaviorism and some popular manifestations of neuroscience—is unnecessary and unresponsive to the aims of scientific psychology. Understanding the mind isn't the same as understanding the brain. Fortunately, though, we can achieve such understanding without abandoning scientific rigor.” > **— Tania Lombrozo**, *“The Mind Is Just The Brain,” Edge Annual Question, 2014* ## Sources and Context - **Direct full source and exact passage:** [“The Mind Is Just The Brain,” Edge Annual Question, 2014](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25290) — Lombrozo rejects a simple reduction of psychological explanation to neural description while accepting that mental phenomena are physically realized in the brain. Her claim concerns levels of explanation, not a nonphysical mind. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Science of Digital Consciousness|Science of Digital Consciousness]] - **Article:** [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Machine Consciousness|Machine Consciousness]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Rejecting the mind in an effort to achieve scientific legitimacy—a trend we've seen with both behaviorism and some popular manifestations of neuroscience—is unnecessary and unresponsive to the aims of scientific psychology. Understanding the mind isn't the same as understanding the brain. Fortunately, though, we can achieve such understanding without abandoning scientific rigor.” — Tania Lombrozo, “The Mind Is Just The Brain,” Edge Annual Question, 2014 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-tania-lombrozo-understanding-mind-more-than-brain ```