""It's all done by nerve cells"—our joys, our sorrows, our memories, our ambitions, our sense of personal identity, and our sense of free will. This is the hypothesis of Francis Crick's latest book. ...So how astonishing is his hypothesis? ...most readers of Perception will find it—apart from the interesting suggestion about the special role of correlated firing—to be much the same as the working hypothesis that they employ daily in the laboratory... the Astonishing Hypothesis is so plausible that it should not be called astonishing"... it is mainly concerned with... the psychology of vision. This is because Crick believes that there is likely to be a basic mechanism for consciousness, similar in different parts of the brain, so it is merely a matter of convenience which area of consciousness one chooses for investigating its neuronal basis."
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I. M. Glyn, Reviews: "The astonishing hypothesis.." Perception, (1994) Vol. 23. pp. 367-368
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