The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul.

First Edition of The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Francis Crick

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul.

CRICK, Francis.

Item Number: 5615

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

First edition of this “well-constructed and comprehensive overview of visual neuroscience” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Best wishes to Prof. Ross Edinburgh Francis Crick.” The recipient James Ross, was Professor of Liver Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. The Astonishing Hypothesis, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and spirituality by examining the soul from the standpoint of a modern scientist, basing the soul's existence and function on an in-depth examination of how the human brain "sees."

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