The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul.
"As
Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it:
'You're nothing but a pack of neurons.'"1a
TIPLER
"
.
. . [W]e really have no clear idea
how we see anything."1b
SCHRODINGER
"What
you see is not what is really there; it is what your
brain believes is there."1c
"Nonlinear
behavior is common in real life, especially in love and war.
As the song says: 'Kissing her once
ain't half as nice as kissing her twice'"1d
WATSON
"A
brain does not look even a little bit like a
general-purpose computer."1e
VON NEUMAN
"There
is no clear distinction in the brain between hardware and software
. . ."1f
"The
brain's operating system is probably not cleanly located in one
special place."1g
"Not
only do the beliefs of most popular religions contradict each
other but, by scientific standards, they are based on
evidence so flimsy that only an act of blind faith can make
them acceptable. If the members of a church really believe in
a life after death, why do they not conduct sound experiments to
establish it? They may not succeed but at least they could try. .
. If revealed religions have revealed anything it is
that they are unusually wrong."1h
GNOSTICS
RUSSELL
DAWKINS
TIPLER
"The
aim of science is to explain all aspects of the
behavior of our brains, including those of musicians,
mystics, and mathematicians"1i
ARISTOTLE
BOOLE
PLANCK
EINSTEIN
WIGNER
BROMLEY
WATSON
"A
few physicists and other scientists who worry about quantum
indeterminacy sometimes wonder whether the uncertainty
principle lies at the bottom of Free Will."1j
SCHRODINGER
VON NEUMAN
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