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.
In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy-Neural Darwinism, Topobiology, and ...
Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what abandons you every evening when you fall asleep and reappears the next morning when you wake up. But why should the physical events occurring inside certain parts of our brain give rise to the phantasmagoric world of conscious experience - a world that contains everything we feel, know, and are? In this short non-technical text, Edelman and Tononi reveal exactly how the vast panorama of consciousness arises.
Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what abandons you every evening when you fall asleep and reappears the next morning when you wake up. But ...
This book explores how we can measure consciousness. It clarifies what consciousness is, how it can be generated from a physical system, and how it can be measured. It also shows how conscious states can be expressed mathematically and how precise predictions can be made using data from neurophysiological studies.
This book explores how we can measure consciousness. It clarifies what consciousness is, how it can be generated from a physical system, and how it ca...
