The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul.

CRICK, Francis.

Item Number: 67499

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

Early printing of this “well-constructed and comprehensive overview of visual neuroscience” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Francis Crick on the title page. 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."