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\u201cI 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. \u00a0This belief must be classed as a superstition. . . . \u00a0we 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.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0(Sir John Eccles [1903-1997], neurophysiologist and 1963 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine)<\/p>\n
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