- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (24 Feb 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140172440
- ISBN-13: 978-0140172447
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 367,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The author takes the reader on a tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, Descartes, Schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and invididuality. He argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brain. Underlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in history. This book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosophy, and more. Frequently contentious, Edelman attacks cognitive and behavioral approaches, which leave biology out of the picture, as well as the currently fashionable view of the brain as a computer. Gerald Edelman received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1972.
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I have always been interested in the brain, the last frontier to be discovered; alas what makes us tick-and-go. Edelman describes he's theories on the matter of the mind in an understandable language so anyone can follow his theories, even though we look into one of the most complex and brilliant object we all share; The Brain!
Brilliant reading, a must if you are interested in the conscious mind & why
John Askildt
Oslo, Norway
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind (Penguin science)
Brilliant reading, a must if you are interested in the conscious mind & why
John Askildt
Oslo, Norway
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind (Penguin science)
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