We are on the verge of a revolution in neuroscience as significant as the Galilean revolution in physics or the Darwinian revolution in biology. Nobel laureate Gerald M. Edelman takes issue with the many current cognitive and behavioural approaches to the brain that leave biology out of the picture, and argues that the workings of the brain more closely resemble the living ecology of a jungle than they do the activities of a computer. Some startling conclusions emerge from these ideas: individuality is necessarily at the very centre of what it means to have a mind, no creature is born value-free, and no physical theory of the universe can claim to be a "theory of everything" without including an account of how the brain gives rise to the mind. There is no greater scientific challenge than understanding the brain. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire is a book that provides a window on that understanding.
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A nobel laureate's revolutionary vision of how the mind originates in the brain
Problems * Mind * Putting the Mind Back into Nature * The Matter of the Mind Origins * Putting Psychology on a Biological Basis * Morphology and Mind: Completing Darwins Program * Topobiology: Lessons from the Embryo * The Problems Reconsidered Proposals * The Sciences of Recognition * Neural Darwinism * Memory and Concepts: Building a Bridge to Consciousness * Consciousness: The Remembered Present * Language and Higher-Order Consciousness * Attention and the Unconscious * Layers and loops: A Summary Harmonies * A Graveyard of Isms: Philosophy and Its Claims * Memory and the Individual Soul: Against Silly Reductionism * Higher Products: Thoughts, Judgments, Emotions * Diseases of the Mind: The Reintegrated Self * Is It Possible to Construct a Conscious Artifact * Symmetry and Memory: On the Ultimate Origins of Mind * Epilogue
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780465007646
Publisert
1993-06-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Basic Books
Vekt
414 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

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Biographical note

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.