Astonishing hypothesis : the scientific search for the soul

By: Crick, FrancisMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., c1995Edition: 1st EdISBN: 9780684801582
Contents:
Part I 1 Introduction 2 The General Nature of Consciousness 3 Seeing 4 The Psychology of Vision 5 Attention and Memory 6 The Perceptual Moment: Theories of Vision Part II 7 The Human Brain in Outline 8 The Neuron 9 Types of Experiment 10 The Primate Usual System- Initial Stages 11 The Visual Cortex of Primates 12 Brain Damage 13 Neural Networks Part III 14 Visual Awareness 15 Some Experiments 16 Mainly Speculation 17 Oscillations and Processing Units 18 Dr. Crick's Sunday Morning Service
Summary: Traditionally, 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."---Provided by publisher
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Part I
1 Introduction
2 The General Nature of Consciousness
3 Seeing
4 The Psychology of Vision
5 Attention and Memory
6 The Perceptual Moment: Theories of Vision
Part II
7 The Human Brain in Outline
8 The Neuron
9 Types of Experiment
10 The Primate Usual System- Initial Stages
11 The Visual Cortex of Primates
12 Brain Damage
13 Neural Networks
Part III
14 Visual Awareness
15 Some Experiments
16 Mainly Speculation
17 Oscillations and Processing Units
18 Dr. Crick's Sunday Morning Service

Traditionally, 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."---Provided by publisher

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