Bright Air, Brilliant Fire - by Gerald M Edelman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>We are on the brink of understanding ancient mysteries: how we know, what governs our nature, what makes a person different from a thing. Now one of the world's foremost brain scientists gives us a glimpse of the revolution in neuroscience that has led to this understanding and examines the implications for philosophy, curing mental disease, and building conscious artifacts. Photographs.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>We are on the verge of a revolution in neuroscience as significant as the Galilean revolution in physics or the Darwinian revolution in biology. Nobel laureate Gerald M. Edelman takes issue with the many current cognitive and behavioral approaches to the brain that leave biology out of the picture, and argues that the workings of the brain more closely resemble the living ecology of a jungle than they do the activities of a computer. Some startling conclusions emerge from these ideas: individuality is necessarily at the very center of what it means to have a mind, no creature is born value-free, and no physical theory of the universe can claim to be a "theory of everything" without including an account of how the brain gives rise to the mind. There is no greater scientific challenge than understanding the brain. <i>Bright Air, Brilliant Fire</i> is a book that provides a window on that understanding.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gerald M. Edelman</b> 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 <i>Bright Air, Brilliant Fire; Tobiology</i>; and <i>The Remembered Present</i>.
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