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Article #7Re: Just Chemicals -- Daniel Dennett
From: Benton Jackson
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00
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There's been a recent complication to this. Our local paper reported on research done by the University of Minnesota indicating that glial cells can communicate with each other. Glial cells were thought to be just support cells for the neurons, which do the real work. Gwen Lenker <galenker@msn.com> wrote in article <01bc1519$98fe4e60$ebd42299@default>... > 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10681a,d96e3c681889af70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10681a,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,d96e3c681889af70 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: 103560,d96e3c681889af70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103560,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,d96e3c681889af70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public From: "Benton Jackson" <benton@fenriswolf.com.nospam> Subject: Re: Just Chemicals -- Daniel Dennett Date: 1997/02/08 Message-ID: <01bc15c4$5ddbf200$73ed90ce@blueheron> X-Deja-AN: 215311241 references: <5a46h9$bjf@nnrp1.farm.idt.net> <19970102030100.WAA01063@ladder01.news.aol.com> <5b0fn6$vb@nnrp3.farm.idt.net> <32FB007C.1B5B@dico.epfl.ch> <01bc1519$98fe4e60$ebd42299@default> organization: Fenris Wolf newsgroups: sci.philosophy,bionet.neuroscience,comp.ai,sci.cognitive