What 1994 book by Francis Crick argued about consciousness?

Francis Crick’s 1994 book about consciousness was The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. It argued that consciousness and other mental activities arise from the activity of the brain’s physical components.

Crick had become famous for explaining biological information at the molecular level, but later turned his attention to neuroscience. In the book, he concentrated especially on visual awareness, discussing neurons, attention, short-term memory, and experiments involving phenomena such as blindsight. His aim was to make consciousness a subject for rigorous scientific investigation rather than leaving it solely to philosophy or religion.

The title is sometimes confused with The Mind’s I, an anthology edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, or Consciousness Explained, a 1991 book by Dennett. The Selfish Gene is Richard Dawkins’s 1976 work and addresses evolutionary genetics, not Crick’s theory of consciousness.