@article {Crick:1994:1355-8250:10, author = "Crick, Francis", author = "Clark, J.", title = "The Astonishing Hypothesis", journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies", volume = "1", year = "1994", abstract = "[opening paragraph] -- Clark: The `astonishing hypothesis' which you put forward in your book, and which you obviously feel is very controversial, is that `You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will are, in fact, no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: `You're nothing but a pack of neurons'.' But it seems to me that this is not so astonishing a statement for a scientist to make. Isn't this what reductionist science has always believed?", pages = "10-16(7)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/1994/00000001/00000001/art00001" }