"It is a fascinating book, even if it is ultimately unpersuasive. ...Trying to work out what the brain is doing by looking at nerve cells is like trying to work out what a poem says by counting the letters in it. ...Crick's 'astonishing hypothesis' is that the mind is just the body... The only problem with this argument is that it seems to leave feelings unexplained. Wouldn't our brains work just the same even if we were zombies... ?"
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David Papineau, Book Review / "Chemistry and an attack of nerves: 'The Astonishing Hypothesis..." The Independent (May 8, 1994)
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