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We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

— James Gleick

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✓Similar Perspectives

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

— Paul Bloom

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

— Anita Brookner

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

— Pamela Stephenson

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

— Rudolf Steiner

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

— Franz Kafka

We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

— Sam Kean

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

— John Templeton

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

— Craig Venter

✗Opposing Perspectives

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran