Francis Crick: Scientific Search for the Soul (excerpt) -- Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the two-part, 60-minute DVD.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2fcric...

A noted scientist discusses free will, consciousness, attention and memory and their relationship to the human nervous system. In a wide ranging discussion, Crick points out that the hypothesis that the brain is the seat of consciousness has not yet been proven.

Francis Crick, Ph.D., received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discovery of DNA's central role in the process of genetic reproduction. He is author of Life Itself, What Mad Pursuit and The Astonishing Hypothesis.

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[ThinkingAllowedTV]

from Wikipedia: Qualia, from a Latin word meaning for "what sort" or "what kind," is a term used in philosophy to describe the subjective quality of conscious experience.

[ThinkingAllowedTV]

The interview was recorded in 1994 shortly after the publication of Francis Crick's book, The Astonishing Hypothesis.

[Beone2b1]

May I have more, please?

[Sabrina Fojo]

The soul has no principal, its God made

[Collin Jones]

He has wrinkles like a Tibetan monk from raising his eyebrows with joyful curiosity over the years.

[Piacevole]

There is certainly not much he has to say. How could you without a real solution or hypothesis. He is very honest about neuroscience being in a early stage and that neurons are a starting point simply because it is material, and that is what you study as a scientist under the current "rules" I guess. The thing about free will is a good point however. There is a lot of unconscious programming that needs to be removed before you can study free will scientifically. 

[cunnidvd]

duh. look it up on the internet idiot.

[NoCaRAAY]

The same goes for Kary Mullis, the inventor of the Polymerase Chain Reacion. He won the Nobel Prize for this, and the idea came to him while experimenting with LSD

[tomiku82]

and Rosalind Franklin

[crazychickenkid411]

What's the word at 1:12? Qualia?