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Nature 435, 1040-1041 (23 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351040a; Published online 22 June 2005
Consciousness: Crick and the claustrum
Charles F. Stevens1
Abstract
Francis Crick believed that, in biology, structure is the natural path to understanding function. In his later career, he applied this dictum to the study of consciousness.
Pretty much everyone is interested in the big questions about the brain, and the biggest big question is: what is consciousness? Just as historically the vitalists could not imagine how life can be explained by just physics and chemistry — they believed that a non-physical 'life force' had to be involved — the dualists of today cannot believe our experience of the feeling of love or the redness of red could arise just through nerve impulses in a bunch of brain cells.
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