"If we regard the soul, not as a flappy diaphanous sort of thing that deserts the dying body like a rat leaving a sinking ship, but as whatever it is that enables a conglomeration of the products of some 105 genes to think and feel and love and hate, then the scientific search for the soul is just what Francis Crick's book is about."
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I. M. Glyn, Reviews: "The astonishing hypothesis.." Perception, (1994) Vol. 23. pp. 367-368
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