...leads to the astonishing hypothesis that "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will are...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." [3] This thesis undermines humans' tendency to flatter themselves, to assert their uniqueness. Desmond...

...neuroscience. He devoted his last years to proving an "astonishing" hypothesis. He writes, "You, your joys, 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: 'You're nothing but a pack of neurons.' This hypothesis...

...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." Accordingly, the biological principles that underlie cognition fundamentally link the structure and...

...described as follows (Crick, 1994, p. 3): 'your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and the associated molecules in the brain'. Crick, and many with him, would have been satisfied if they...

...Hypothesis": to wit, "that 'you,' your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of identity and free will, are in fact no more than the...vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."1 1 Likewise, philosopher Daniel Dennett asserts: there is only one sort of stuff, namely...

...Francis Crick7 who claimed that human joys and sorrows, memories and ambitions, sense of personality and free will "are in fact no more than the behavior...assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules", as if to assert that this "vast assembly of nerve cells and associated molecules" has no sentience....

...it.) This wrong-way-round thinking means that your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a complex assemblage of nerve cells. Potentially, then, as you are just a bundle of chemicals, traits...

...intellectual arrogance Francis Crick wrote: 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. (Crick 1994: 3) As Szasz...

...describes this emergence as follows: 'You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are...associated molecules . . . You're nothing but a pack of neurons.'8 The 'you' that Crick speaks of here arises from the workings of the material brain. Without...

...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." 12 This hypothesis was postulated by Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA....