Functional Planning of General Hospitals

a readily intelligible summary of the studies relating norepinephrine to affective states. Schmitt, who is confident of the ability of the molecular scientist to construct a new theoretical biology for the neurosciences as was done for genetics, has summarized the contribution of molecular biology to the neurosciences. The accomplishments, while noteworthy, do not yet justify his confidence. Hyden presents data primarily from his own laboratory on a search for a molecular correlate to learning and memory. The Reverend Gustafson addresses himself to the problem of the use of knowledge of the brain in furthering man's development of himself. I particularly like his notion that the humanist so engaged needs at least a layman's knowledge of the crucial research. Huston Smith believes that minds are distinguished from computers by the fact that they can cope in ways we recognize as intelligent with problems that are not well defined and for the solving of which rules are unknown if they exist at all. Sir John Eccles, the noted neurophysiologist and Nobel Laureate, believes that evolutionary theory gives a satisfactory account of the origin of the human body but fails completely with respect to man as a person who experiences awareness of self and unique individuality. He maintains that ceremonial burial customs provide us with historical evidence for the dawn of self-consciousness. How they do so is not clear to me. In his opinion, awareness of self and care of the dead set man apart from other animals. He states that the only justifiable position with regard to animal consciousness is that of agnosticism. In the opinion of this reviewer, he should also have taken this position with respect to animal self-consciousness.