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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 an 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''' (1903-1997) the prize-winning author of ''[[Mind and Brain]]''. He won the [[Nobel Prize]] in Physiology or Medicine in 1963.
He "was a strong advocate and collaborator with his long-time friend, Sir [[Karl Popper]], in promoting understanding of an 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 />
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.
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.
{{quotebox|In addition to this purely scientific study of the brain, Eccles has followed Sherrington in developing a philosophy of the [[human person]] that is consonant with the whole of [[brain science]]. [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1963/eccles-bio.html Nobel Prize bio]}}
{{quotebox|Over the course of several decades, partly in collaboration with the philosopher of science [[Sir Karl Popper]], Eccles has developed an alternative theory of the mind, known as [[dualist-interactionism]]. - David Pratt [http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/prat-bra.htm]}}
==External links==
* http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1963/eccles-bio.html - Sir John Eccle's biography.
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