| J. C. Polkinghorne, John Polkinghorne - 1998 - 148 páginas
...consciousness through the deliverances of neuroscience. His so-called 'Astonishing Hypothesis' is that "You", your joys and your sorrows, your memories and...identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules'38. The bulk of his book... | |
| Dinesh O. Shah - 1998 - 634 páginas
...than Francis Crick of double-helix fame: "Your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact...vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."3 Or consider a quote from Carl Sagan in his well-known book, Cosmos: I am a collection... | |
| Walter Frederick Buckley - 1998 - 330 páginas
...reductionistic. The rather extreme view of Francis Crick is that mental events, free will, self identity, are "no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." And he claims to have located free will near the brain's anterior cingulate sulcus." And even Edelman,... | |
| Warren S. Brown, Nancey C. Murphy, H. Newton Malony - 1997 - 276 páginas
...reductionist materialist, had no doubts that "You are nothing but a pack of neurones" and that "you are . . . no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." Of consciousness, he concluded that "to repeat: consciousness depends crucially on thalamic connections... | |
| Mieczyslaw Taube, Klaus Leenders - 1998 - 456 páginas
...is required for the emergence of consciousness." F.Crick (1994): "You, your joys, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are, in fact, no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve-cells. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: 'You're... | |
| Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn Scott - 1998 - 790 páginas
...Francis Crick (1994) boldly asserts the philosophical position called functionalism with the words "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... | |
| Sutapas Bhattacharya - 1999 - 714 páginas
...statement of what the "astonishing hypothesis" he is putting forward is: The Astonishing Hypothesis is that "You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: "You're nothing but a pack of neurons." As is typical... | |
| Karol Ondrias - 1999 - 228 páginas
...Mudroch: Misfortune. 1941. Materiality of Consciousness [135] Chapter Five Materiality of Consciousness "'You', your joys and your sorrows, your memories...of nerve cells and their associated molecules..." - FRANCIS CRICK: THE ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS. THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR THE SOUL "The unexamined life... | |
| David Ray Griffin - 2000 - 368 páginas
...Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, says: The Astonishing Hypothesis is that "YOU," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: "You're nothing but a pack of neurons." ... The scientific... | |
| Gianfranco Spavieri - 2000 - 322 páginas
...introducing his scientific model of consciousness, calls his approach "The Astonishing Hypothesis': ...that "You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carrol's Alice might have phrased it: " You're nothing but a pack of neurons." This hypothesis... | |
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