A Universe of consciousness - Gerald M. Edelman, Giulio Tononi

how matter becomes imagination

KORTE INHOUD

What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the phantasmagoric world of conscious experience, a world that contains everything we feel, everything we know and everything we are? Scientists and philosophers have pondered these questions for eons, but until now their answers could never be grounded in observable scientific experiment.
In 'A Universe of Consciousness' , Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy - 'Neural Darwinism, 'Topbiology' and 'The remembered present' - to present for the first time an empirically supported full-scale theory of consciousness.
Edelman and Tononi show how they use ingenious technology to detect minute brain currents and to identify the specific brain waves that correlate with particular conscious experiences. The results of this pioneering work challenge much of the conventional wisdom about consciousness: in support of Freud's theories, the authors sh...
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