John Carew Eccles

"I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. … I cannot be…"

"Our coming-to-be is as mysterious as our ceasing-to-be at death. Can we therefore not derive hope because our ignorance about our origin matches our ignorance about our destiny? Cannot life be lived a…"

"The materialist critics argue that insuperable difficulties are encountered by the hypothesis that immaterial mental events can act in any way on material structures such as neurons. Such a presumed a…"

"In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resume…"

"The concept of substance leads to a materialist aspect of the mind. I speak instead of the spiritual existence of the self without mentioning any 'substance' properties. The great problem is 'how the …"

"Pratt, D.: John Eccles on Mind and Brain. A theosophical view."

"Induction was shown to be untenable as a scientific method by Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery . Instead, advances in scientific understanding come ideally from hypothetico-deductivism: fir…"

"The hypothesis has been proposed that all mental events and experiences, in fact the whole of the outer and inner sensory experiences, are a composite of elemental or unitary mental experiences at all…"