Francis Crick — "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of…"

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

Date: 1994

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