A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M Edelman

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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist and a leading brain researcher show how the brain creates conscious experience

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A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M Edelman

In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy-Neural Darwinism, Topobiology, and The Remembered Present-to present for the first time an empirically supported full-scale theory of consciousness. He and the neurobiolgist Giulio Tononi show how they use ingenious technology to detect the most minute brain currents and to identify the specific brain waves that correlate with particular conscious experiences. The results of this pioneering work challenge the conventional wisdom about consciousness.
Gerald M. Edelman is director of the Neurosciences Institute and chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute. He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1972. He is also the author of Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Tobiology and The Remembered Present. Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow in Theoretical and Experimental Neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute. He is the editor, with Olaf Sporns, of Selectionism and the Brain. Both authors live in San Diego, California.
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ISBN 13 9780465013777
ISBN 10 0465013775
Title A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination
Author Gerald M Edelman
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Basic Books
Year published 2001-02-28
Number of pages 288
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