...DNA. presents us with what he calls his "Astonishing Hypothesis": The Astonishing Hypothesis is that "You." your joys and your sorrows. your memories and your ambitions. your sense of identity and free will. are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and...

...description of it. To write that one's joys, sorrows, memories, personal identity, and free will are no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells seems at variance with the statement that the brain — like a molecule of benzene — is more than...

...Crick, for example, declares (in The Astonishing Hypothesis, 3) "The Astonishing Hypothesis is that 'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and...your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and your free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated...

...Search for the Soul, Sir Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, unabashedly asserts, "'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and...

...Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul} The astonishing hypothesis on which the book is based is that "You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules, [p. 3] 1. Simon and Schuster, 1994. I have seen reviews of Crick's book which complained that it is...

...Beings are chemical machines." 6 Biologist Francis Crick agrees: "The Astonishing Hypothesis is that 'You/ your joys and your sorrows, your memories and...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." 7 Philosopher Huston Smith notes: "Itself occupying no more than a single ontological plane, science...

...single neurons or collections of neurons in the brain, that all our subjective experience is nothing more than "the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." Your feelings of joy and sorrow, in other words, are nothing more than the firing of billions of neurons...

...brain supports mental life. Joys, sorrows, memories, ambitions, and a sense of personal identity are the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. 11 The relation of exchange is being studied more and more by scientists, politicians, and cultural theorists...

...by neurophysics and neurochemistry. As it is formulated by Francis Crick (cited from Morgan 1994): "Your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." There are a lot of arguments against the methodology inherent in the program of microreduction. First...

...metaphysical assumption of materialistic science: "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." In the specific treatment of the problem, Crick first simplifies the problem of consciousness by reducing...