Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On The Matter Of The Mind

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On The Matter Of The Mind

Author: Gerald M. Edelman
ISBN-10: 0465052452
ISBN-13: 9780465052455
Edition: First Edition
Release: April 28, 1992
Hardcover: 304 pages
Book Description
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. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire is a book that provides a window on that understanding.