TY - BOOK AU - Crick, Francis TI - Astonishing hypothesis: : the scientific search for the soul SN - 9780684801582 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster Inc. N1 - Part I 1 Introduction 2 The General Nature of Consciousness 3 Seeing 4 The Psychology of Vision 5 Attention and Memory 6 The Perceptual Moment: Theories of Vision Part II 7 The Human Brain in Outline 8 The Neuron 9 Types of Experiment 10 The Primate Usual System- Initial Stages 11 The Visual Cortex of Primates 12 Brain Damage 13 Neural Networks Part III 14 Visual Awareness 15 Some Experiments 16 Mainly Speculation 17 Oscillations and Processing Units 18 Dr. Crick's Sunday Morning Service N2 - Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and spirituality by examining the soul from the standpoint of a modern scientist, basing the soul's existence and function on an in-depth examination of how the human brain "sees."---Provided by publisher ER -