# Your Joys and Your Sorrows by Francis Crick > "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, are in fact no more than the behavior of nerve cells." > **— Francis Crick**, *The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994), compressed candidate wording* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994), compressed candidate wording. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] - **Article:** [[articles/Escape Hatch in the Skull|Escape Hatch in the Skull]] - **Article:** [[articles/Science of Digital Consciousness|Science of Digital Consciousness]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Third Possibility|The Third Possibility]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Francis Crick|Francis Crick]] - [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Consciousness Indicators|Consciousness Indicators]] - [[wiki/Machine Consciousness|Machine Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Hard Problem of Consciousness|Hard Problem of Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Digital Minds|Digital Minds]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, are in fact no more than the behavior of nerve cells." — Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994), compressed candidate wording https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-francis-crick-joys-sorrows ```