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<DIV>From the <A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/science/13CRIC.html">New York Times</A>,
Francis Crick on the mind-body problem and the thorny subject of the human self:
Where is the line between mind and matter? he asked. Aside from the neurons in
our brains, the human body contains tens of millions of neurons in the enteric
nervous system, which extends into the stomach and intestines. "When you digest
your lunch is that you?" Dr. Crick asked. Body and mind are the twin problems
around which Dr. Crick's life has spiraled, much like the double helix structure
of DNA that he and Dr. James D. Watson are famous for discovering half a century
ago. <BR>Dr. Crick has been a tireless champion of the brain. In a 1979
editorial in Scientific American, he argued that the time had come for science
to take on the previously forbidden subject of consciousness. In his 1994 book
"The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul," he went
further. "You," he wrote, "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
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