Abstract

"The astonishing hypothesis is that, 'you,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity, and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules" . It is my impression that Crick's astonishing hypothesis is a variation on Horace Barlow's neuron doctrine of perception . However, if Crick's hypothesis is an attempt to recreate the power and generality of DNA codes in neuron form as Barlow hoped to do , the reader would have been given a better sense of direction if that had been set out in a clear fashion