The Astonishing Hypothesis

Authors: Crick, Francis; Clark, J.

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 1994 , pp. 10-16(7)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

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[opening paragraph] -- Clark: The `astonishing hypothesis' which you put forward in your book, and which you obviously feel is very controversial, is that `You, your joys and sorrows, 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 nothing but a pack of neurons'.' But it seems to me that this is not so astonishing a statement for a scientist to make. Isn't this what reductionist science has always believed?

Document Type: Research article

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