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Eccles opposed [[scientific reductionism]]:
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 [[neuron]]al activity. This belief must be classed as a [[superstition]]. . . . we have to recognize that we are [[spiritual beings]] with [[soul]]s 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]
*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 [[neuron]]al activity. This belief must be classed as a [[superstition]]. . . . we have to recognize that we are [[spiritual beings]] with [[soul]]s 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]
Late in his career, Eccles began participating in a series of science conferences sponsored by one of Rev. [[Sun Myung Moon]]'s organizations (see [[ICUS]]), even serving a few years as chairman.
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