This unwillingness is based primarily upon what he considers to be an undeniable and irreducible fact of human self - intuition: when one is directly aware of himself
in a
specific moment, he is aware of «himself» as a single unit of action and not of any system of
cells.
The success of «targeted therapies»
in oncology — so named because they disable cancer
cells in very
specific ways — is being hailed a watershed
moment in cancer therapy.