In article <LFK.94Jan27094428 at receptor.receptor.mgh.harvard.edu> Lee F.,
lfk at receptor.mgh.harvard.edu writes:
>Yesterday on All Thing's Considered, Francis Crick was interviewed
>about his new book, but I missed the title of it.
>>In this book, Crick lays out the molecular/chemical/electrical nature of
such
>philosophically complex constructs as the soul.
>>These are of course my beliefs as a member of the chemically
>reductionist world. What about the rest of you?
>--
>Frank Kolakowski
It's funny that when my officemate and I heard this inverview we found it
very underwhelming and thought "So what?" I had to remember that
probably 95%-99.9% of the people in the world do not have a materialist
worldview before I could see how his ideas (as talked about in the
interview) are at all "astonishing". Regardless of the merits of the
book a materialist conception of perception, consciousness, etc. is not
astonishing or novel to most neuroscientists.
Se/amas
