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Loading... Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (original 1994; edition 1995)by Francis Crick
Work InformationAstonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick (1994)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) aketzle | Jan 17, 2015 |  He stresses several times that patients are not aware about several types of damage. And that blind sight exists. Only at the very end the author carefully speculates on the relation between what he described, and consciousness/the soul. I think the title of the book should have been: A Technical Explanation of Vision, with maybe a subtitle And Some Speculations about Consciousness. That would have been way more honest, though he would have sold far less copies... ( )1  SkepChris | Dec 14, 2008 | )1 tgraettinger | Apr 27, 2008 | syaffolee | Dec 6, 2006 | The evidence is well presented and it is an interesting read. Whether you conclude that the hypothesis is "astonishing", "obvious" or "wrong" will probably depend on your preconceptions. ( ) richardtaylor | Sep 27, 2006 | no reviews | add a review
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." No library descriptions found. |
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