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Re: Just Chemicals -- Daniel Dennett

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From: Gwen Lenker
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 00:00
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Vincent Stadelmann <vstadelm@dico.epfl.ch> wrote in article
<32FB007C.1B5B@dico.epfl.ch>...
> Hello how do you do,
> I think that the body is over powering the mind, what do you think of
> that?
 
If you mean that what we call the mind is entirely the product of
physiological processes, you're in good company.

Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick shares that view.  Try to locate a copy of
his book, _The Astonishing Hypothesis_.

Stephen Hawking has expressed a similar sentiment in interviews but I can't
manage a citation at the moment.
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From: "Gwen Lenker" <galenker@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Just Chemicals -- Daniel Dennett
Date: 1997/02/07
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