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rejected the "claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity"
Sir '''John Eccles''' was a [[Nobel]]-prize winning scientist who "was a strong advocate and collaborator with his long-time friend, Sir [[Karl Popper]], in promoting understanding of the importance of the [[hypothetico-deductive approach]] to science, in which the scientist must formulate a [[hypothesis]] and deduce from that consequences that can be [[falsified]] by [[testing]]. <ref name=nwe>[http://www.encyclopediaproject.net/wiki/John_Carew_Eccles#The_mystery_of_the_self Encyclopedia Project]</ref>
Sir '''John Eccles''' was a [[Nobel]]-prize winning scientist who "was a strong advocate and collaborator with his long-time friend, Sir [[Karl Popper]], in promoting understanding of the importance of the [[hypothetico-deductive approach]] to science, in which the scientist must formulate a [[hypothesis]] and deduce from that consequences that can be [[falsified]] by [[testing]]. <ref name=nwe>[http://www.encyclopediaproject.net/wiki/John_Carew_Eccles#The_mystery_of_the_self Encyclopedia Project]</ref>
"In his specialty of neuroscience, he was a forceful and nearly singular voice upholding the view that the human mind included a part existing distinctly from the physical brain and not explainable as an epiphenomena of that brain."<ref name=nwe />
"In his specialty of neuroscience, he was a forceful and nearly singular voice upholding the view that the human mind included a part existing distinctly from the physical brain and not explainable as an epiphenomena of that brain."<ref name=nwe />
Eccles opposed [[scientific reductionism]]:
*I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory [[materialism]] to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. . . . we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world. --Evolution of the Brain, Creation of the Self, p. 241 [http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/prat-bra.htm]
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