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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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Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines

Steve Talbott - Computers - 2007 - 301 pages
...cite just a few famous cases: "Ton," 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." (Francis Crick)...
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In the Name of Education

Jonas E. Alexis - Religion - 2007 - 413 pages
...book The Astonishing Hypothesis: "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."*0 Yes, this is an astonishing hypothesis because no one in his right mind can believe that...
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A Theology for the Church

Daniel L. Akin - Religion - 2007 - 950 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 in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assemblage of nerve cells and their associated molecules."65 Of course, if his hypothesis is true,...
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The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief

Michael R. Trimble - Art - 2007 - 305 pages
...his "astonishing hypothesis" — that "you, your joys and your 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 and their associated molecules."1 Actually, the only thing...
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Biotechnology and the Human Good

C. Ben Mitchell - Medical - 2007 - 228 pages
...views. Crick has suggested that "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 [genetically determined] behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."...
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Washing the Brain: Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Andrew Goatly - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 464 pages
...The "Astonishing Hypothesis" is that "YOU", your joys and 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 associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll might have phrased...
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The Soul of Classical American Philosophy: The Ethical and Spiritual ...

Richard P. Mullin - Philosophy - 2012 - 190 pages
...today is Francis Crick. In his book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, he argues that "You are nothing but the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated behavior." 1 The nerve cells and their behavior depend on the action of the molecules that compose...
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Believer Skeptic

David Christopher Lane - Apologetics - 2008 - 147 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." This hypothesis...
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Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will

John Baer, James C. Kaufman, Roy F. Baumeister - Psychology - 2008 - 368 pages
...command. — Ian McEwan, Atonement "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. Who you are is nothing but a pack of neurons. — Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis Nothing...
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Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy

Francis J. Kaklauskas, Susan Nimanheminda, Louis Hoffman, MacAndrew S. Jack - Philosophy - 2008 - 429 pages
...astonishing hypothesis, that 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" [p. 4]. Although all that has been proven, per se, is that most mental states have neural correlates,...
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