The 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 assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
— Francis Crick Modern

Co-discoverer of DNA structure

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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

Date / Period

1994

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Strange & Unusual

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https://archive.org/details/astonishinghypot00cric_0

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