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Quotes from How the Self Controls Its Brain — John Carew Eccles

1903–1997 Australia

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The more we discover scientifically about the brain the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena and the more wonderful do the mental phenomena become.

How the Self Controls Its Brain (1994)

The hypothesis has been proposed that all mental events and experiences, in fact the whole of the outer and inner sensory experiences, are a composite of elemental or unitary mental experiences at all levels of intensity.

How the Self Controls Its Brain (1994)

The materialist critics argue that insuperable difficulties are encountered by the hypothesis that immaterial mental events can act in any way on material structures such as neurons.

How the Self Controls Its Brain (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Carew Eccles (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.