Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., is director, The Neurosciences Institute; president, Neurosciences Research Foundation; and chairman, Department of Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute. The recipient of many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Edelman is the author of "Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness," published by Yale University Press.""