![]() Will a solution of similar elegance emerge for the problem of consciousness? Crick himself cautioned against the pursuit of elegance in biology, given that evolution proceeds happenstantially-"God is a hacker," he famously said, adding (according to my colleague Don Hoffman), "Many a young biologist has slit his own throat with Ockham's razor." Yet his own solution to the riddle of heredity ranks with natural selection as biology's most elegant discovery. The ability to grasp analogies, and seeing the difference between deep and superficial ones, is a hallmark of many great scientists Francis Crick and James Watson were no exception. I'll argue that the same strategy used to crack the genetic code might prove successful in cracking the "neural code" of consciousness and self. What's my favorite elegant idea? The elucidation of DNA's structure is surely the most obvious, but it bears repeating. ![]()
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