The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul - Hardcover

Crick, Francis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684194317 ISBN 13: 9780684194318

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1994

Synopsis

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the molecular structure of DNA examines what makes humans sentient beings, offering an analysis and description of how the brain sees.

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Review:

Matthew Belmonte "The Washington Times" Crick's new book is a well-constructed and comprehensive overview of visual neuroscience for the lay reader....[The] book's questions and conjectures are incisive and provocative.

Carl Sagan

"Author of "Cosmos"

"The Astonishing Hypothesis" is a fascinating argument that consciousness and what has long been called the soul are now accessible to scientific investigation.

Matthew Belmonte

"The Washington Times"

Crick's new book is a well-constructed and comprehensive overview of visual neuroscience for the lay reader....[The] book's questions and conjectures are incisive and provocative.

Sheryl Stolberg

"Los Angeles Times"

Skewering philosophy and religion in a book that is supposed to be about the study of the brain might be awkward for other scientists. But Crick pulls it off, and incorporates the nitty-gritty of science to boot.

Carl Sagan"Author of "Cosmos" "The Astonishing Hypothesis" is a fascinating argument that consciousness and what has long been called the soul are now accessible to scientific investigation.

Matthew Belmonte"The Washington Times" Crick's new book is a well-constructed and comprehensive overview of visual neuroscience for the lay reader....[The] book's questions and conjectures are incisive and provocative.

Sheryl Stolberg"Los Angeles Times" Skewering philosophy and religion in a book that is supposed to be about the study of the brain might be awkward for other scientists. But Crick pulls it off, and incorporates the nitty-gritty of science to boot.

Sheryl Stolberg "Los Angeles Times" Skewering philosophy and religion in a book that is supposed to be about the study of the brain might be awkward for other scientists. But Crick pulls it off, and incorporates the nitty-gritty of science to boot.

Carl Sagan "Author of "Cosmos""The Astonishing Hypothesis" is a fascinating argument that consciousness and what has long been called the soul are now accessible to scientific investigation.

Carl Sagan "Author of "Cosmos" "The Astonishing Hypothesis" is a fascinating argument that consciousness and what has long been called the soul are now accessible to scientific investigation.

About the Author:

Francis Crick is a Distinguished Research Professor at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0684194317
• ISBN 13: 9780684194318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 331