| | John Eccles on mind and brain |
 | | Eccles feels that this 'impoverished and empty' theory fails to account for 'the wonder and mystery of the human self with its spiritual values, with its creativity, and with its uniqueness for each of us' [2]. |
 | | Eccles calls the fundamental neural units of the cerebral cortex dendrons, and proposes that each of the 40 million dendrons is linked with a mental unit, or pychon, representing a unitary conscious experience. |
 | | Eccles is in basic agreement with the neo-Darwinian theory that evolution is driven by random genetic mutations followed by the weeding out of unfavorable variations by natural selection, but he also believes that 'there is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialist happenings of biological evolution' [10]. |
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