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9780465013777

A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465013777

  • ISBN10:

    0465013775

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-02-28
  • Publisher: BASIC BOOKS

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
PART I THE WORLD KNOT
Consciousness: Philosophical Paradox or Scientific Object?
3(7)
The Special Problem of Consciousness
10(10)
Everyman's Private Theater: Ongoing Unity, Endless Variety
20(17)
PART II CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BRAIN
Building a Picture of the Brain
37(14)
Consciousness and Distributed Neural Activity
51(11)
Neural Activity Integrated and Differentiated
62(17)
PART III MECHANISMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE DARWINIAN PERSPECTIVE
Selectionism
79(14)
Nonrepresentational Memory
93(9)
Perception into Memory: The Remembered Present
102(11)
PART IV DEALING WITH PLETHORA: THE DYNAMIC CORE HYPOTHESIS
Integration and Reentry
113(12)
Consciousness and Complexity
125(14)
Determining Where the Knot Is Tied: The Dynamic Core Hypothesis
139(18)
PART V UNTANGLING THE KNOT
Qualia and Discrimination
157(19)
The Conscious and the Unconscious
176(17)
PART VI OBSERVER TIME
Language and the Self
193(7)
Thinking
200(7)
Prisoners of Description
207(16)
Notes 223(30)
Bibliography 253(12)
Credits 265(2)
Index 267

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