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John C. Eccles

Born

in Melbourne, Australia

January 27, 1903

Died

May 02, 1997

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Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

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	Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self by John C. Eccles, Karl Popper (Foreword) 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1989 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wonder of Being Human: Our Brain and Our Mind by John C. Eccles, Daniel N. Robinson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The understanding of the brain 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mind and Brain: The Many-Faceted Problems 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobel Prize Conversations: With Sir John Eccles, Roger Sperry, Ilya Prigogine, Brian Josephson by John C. Eccles (Conversationist), Roger Sperry (Conversationist), Ilya Prigogine (Conversationist) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'io e il suo cervello, Vol 3. Dialoghi aperti tra Popper e Eccles by John C. Eccles, Karl Popper 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facing reality: philosophical adventures by a brain scientist it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reach of the Mind: Nobel Prize Conversations (MIND AGE SERIES) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The anatomist, or, The sham doctor written by Mr. Ravenscroft; with The loves of Mars and Venus, a play set to music, written by Mr. Motteux; as they ... Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. (1697) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism by John C. Eccles, Karl Popper it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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.”
― John C. Eccles

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“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists . . . who often confuse their religion with their science.”
― John C. Eccles, The Wonder of Being Human: Our Brain and Our Mind

tags: brain, dogmatism, materialism, mind

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“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.”
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