Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the SoulTraditionally, 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." |
Contents
The General Nature of Consciousness | 13 |
Seeing | 23 |
The Psychology of Vision | 35 |
Attention and Memory | 59 |
Theories of Vision | 71 |
Part II | 78 |
The Neuron | 91 |
Types of Experiment | 107 |
Brain Damage | 161 |
Neural Networks | 177 |
Visual Awareness | 231 |
Oscillations and Processing Units | 243 |
Dr Cricks Sunday Morning Service | 255 |
A Postscript on Free Will | 265 |
Further Reading | 281 |
Acknowledgments | 301 |
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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul Francis Crick No preview available - 1994 |
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