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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.

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"Edelman and Tononi's work breaks new ground." -- Antonio Damasio, author of The Feeling of What Happens

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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.

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Basic Books (February 28, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780465013777
ISBN-13: 978-0465013777
ASIN: 0465013775
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.9 x 8 inches
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- #462 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Neurology > Neuroscience
- #590 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Consciousness & Thought
- #2209 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Biology

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For tech people this book needs no reviewing. This textbook is scientific classic, by late Nobel prize winner G.Edelman, who went on to & began Neuroscience Institute. This mile stone text on global brain paradime, results from NSI work for 21 century science. Advanced readers, also sold by excellent Amazon seller. Simple explains qualities of human conscious for first time.

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Finally, presented here, is an alternative (actually a solution) to the mind/brain hard problem. Edelman and Tononi posit that consciousness is not a separate entity from the workings of the brain and its dynamic structure, but is a direct product of the processing of information as it occurs within the brain.

Edelman and Tononi propose an extraordinary insight in saying that conscious perception is not 'perceiving' something out there, but the re-arising of stored memories (information) that have been and are being correlated and reinforced by neurological exchange and `reentry' between various informational nodes! Our present conscious experiencing is a remembered series of previous perceptions - a "remembered present" - its meaning and significance created by reinforced neurological tracks or 'value' development.

The first half of the "A Universe..." reviews much of the present scientific understanding of the workings of the brain as a dynamic series of structures, detailing how they work in themselves and how neurons communicate in their unique ways both within and between structures. The second half of the book explores the significance and implications of the informational interacting of those structures and how that very activity contributes to the development of a `dynamic (informational) core'. The brain, as an integrated informational mechanism, itself, creates that which it is aware of!

Giulio Tononi also has another extraordinary book just published, "Phi - A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul". It is a brilliant presentation of a journey through the workings of the brain that one explores along with a Dantesque Galileo, discovering how consciousness can arise through the integration of information that occurs as the dynamic functioning of the brain and not as a product of the physical brain itself.

For anyone who wishes to engage in the challenge of closely re-examining the nature of our very experienceing, I cannot recommend "A Universe of Consciousness" and "Phi" enough. These works explicate a significant scientific paradigm shift. A must read!

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-This is a leading neuroscientific contribution to explaining the nature of consciousness. The authors have written other books and abstracts (an excellent, concise summary by Dr. Edelman may be found in the NY Academy of Science Annals, Vol 882), but this one seems to have the most depth and development. The book was written in 2000 and is intended to give an overview, which makes it less prone to going out of date. In fact, it seems to give a reasonably sound foundational basis for understanding more recent developments, such as the role of electrical wave propagation in conscious activity.
-The main purpose of "Universe" is approaching the problem of how objectively describable events ("the external and internal world") produces private subjective experience. Many have attempted this but only recently have we been able to scientifically probe it (although our understanding still reflects the insights of the Greeks and other capable philosophers). The authors give us some unique suggestions for current understanding and integrating further developments. "Universe" builds a foundation of basic neural activity, discusses how computer modeling can offer hints to the working of the human mind although they cannot explain or duplicate it, discusses how conscious and unconscious neural activity may be integrated and differentiated, and suggests how neural activity self-selects (the authors expand upon an earlier thesis that Darwin's evolution is a far better foundation than directly psychological abstractions like Freud's). "Universe" humbly recognizes the incomprehensible vastness of the human mind (the authors call it "hyperastronomical"), and how unlikely it is that we will ever completely describe it except in a trivial sense. The authors suggest we are far better off conceiving of the mind and Consciousness as an incredibly dynamic Event rather than something static (Heraclitus was too kind -- we cannot even have the same thought once, let alone twice). The authors seem to make a major descriptive contribution by insights into the Dynamic Core Hypothesis ( a highly differentiated, anatomically clustered, complex, and self-coordinating functioning of neuronal groups) and re-entry (a continuous reciprocal signalling, roughly similar to a coordinated and massively dynamic feedback type system, which can integrate anatomically segregated areas of the brain without demanding a central "man-in-the-box" coordination area). The authors' discussion of Qualia (the quality and intensity of private subjective experience) seems to reflect our continued inability to describe these phenomena as accurately as we would like.
-"Universe" can be as challenging as you want it to be, and it is an interesting and thoughtful study of consciousness from leading and respected scientists. The notes and Bibliography are excellent, and the authors wisely uses space to develop his ideas, rather than give an overview of everyone else's. The authors admit this is not some kind of final theory of consciousness, but it seems a reasonable description of some of the issues and foundations for consciousness. It is like setting out on an expedition with a basically accurate but incomplete map, which can be changed and filled in along the way, rather than relying on guesswork or hearsay.
As a suggestion to help you enjoy this book, I found it greatly helped to set aside a few minutes to scan each chapter before reading it, which helped appreciate the continuity of the arguments. I also found a neuroanatomy atlas (such as Nolte) useful.

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