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" YOU," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. "
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World - Page 228
by Owen Flanagan - 2009 - 304 pages
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Literary Memory, Consciousness, and the Group Oulipo

Peter Consenstein - Consciousness - 2002 - 256 pages
..."astonishing hypothesis," which is that '"You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules" (3), it appears that materialism continues to insist that scientific study of the brain will explain...
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Nature, Human Nature, and God

Ian G. Barbour - Religion - 190 pages
...Astonishing Hypothesis is that "you," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...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."57 On the scientific...
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Creation and Last Things: At the Intersection of Theology and Science

Gregory S. Cootsona - Religion - 2002 - 124 pages
...Astonishing Hypothesis is that "you," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...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."" If Crick is...
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Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences

Gregory R. Peterson - Religion - 2003 - 276 pages
...reductionist line, arguing that "you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."21 The import of many versions of this approach is somewhat ambiguous. Thus Daniel Dennett...
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The Philosophy of Robert Ettinger

Charles Tandy, Scott R. Stroud - Medical - 2002 - 274 pages
...your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and freewill, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." If Crick is right the frontiers of the soul seem to be vanishing faster than the smile on the Cheshire...
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God, Life, Intelligence and the Universe

Hilary D. Regan, Terence J. Kelly - Intellect - 2002 - 200 pages
...Astonishing Hypothesis is the 'you', your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. Such radical reductionism...
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The Truth about Human Origins

Brad Harrub, Bert Thompson - Human evolution - 2003 - 531 pages
...brain ever to be put into print. You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: "You are nothing but a packet of neurons" (1994, p....
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Neurology in Clinical Practice

Walter George Bradley - Diagnosis - 2004 - 1258 pages
...deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), expressed the "astonishing hypothesis" that "you, your joys, and your sorrows, your sense of personal identity, and free will, are...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." This chapter considers our knowledge of intellect and memory, mind and brain, from the perspective...
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Imagination and the Meaningful Brain

Arnold H. Modell - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 284 pages
...Astonishing Hypothesis (1994), "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories, and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." The Assumption of a Universal Unconscious Mind The nineteenth-century romantic movement undoubtedly...
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Thinking Against the Grain (Moseley): Developing a Biblical Worldview in a ...

N. Allan Moseley - Christian life - 278 pages
...structure of DNA, expressed the view that "your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."16 Once we understand the implications of naturalism, we see why scientists would seek a...
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