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" I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain. "
John Eccles
Myself
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" I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self. "
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" I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?' "
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" Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium. "
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" A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research. "
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