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Bright Air, Brilliant Fire - by Gerald M Edelman (Paperback)

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  • We are on the verge of a revolution in neuroscience as significant as the Galilean revolution in physics or the Darwinian revolution in biology.
  • About the Author: Gerald M. Edelman is director of the Neurosciences Institute and chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute.
  • 304 Pages
  • Philosophy, Movements

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About the Book



We are on the brink of understanding ancient mysteries: how we know, what governs our nature, what makes a person different from a thing. Now one of the world's foremost brain scientists gives us a glimpse of the revolution in neuroscience that has led to this understanding and examines the implications for philosophy, curing mental disease, and building conscious artifacts. Photographs.



Book Synopsis



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 behavioral 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 center 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.



About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 304
Genre: Philosophy
Sub-Genre: Movements
Publisher: Basic Books
Theme: Humanism
Format: Paperback
Author: Gerald M Edelman
Language: English
Street Date: June 16, 1993
TCIN: 77263167
UPC: 9780465007646
Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-1610
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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