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.
— Francis Crick Modern

Co-discoverer of DNA structure

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In his book 'The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul'

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1994

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Controversial

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31680.The_Astonishing_Hypothesis

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