Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

A Psychology, Science, Biology book. A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of...

Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and spirituality by examining the soul from the standpoint of a modern scientist, basing the soul's existence and function on an in-depth examination of how the human brain "sees."

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A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them. Francis Crick, Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

Crick was a more interesting thinker than his partner Watson. ConsciousnessFrancis Crick studies the mind-body problem of philosophy using a scientific approach. It appears that consciousness involves only more recently evolved parts of the brain, and does not exist in lower animals. Consciousness was ignored by the behavioral psychologists John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner. Francis Crick did much... I was not astonished. Might have been a little if i read it way earlier. Thus the 1 star.

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