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Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Paperback - 1993

by Gerald M. Edelman

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.


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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.

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Don't think of an elephant."

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  • Title Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
  • Author Gerald M. Edelman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date 1993-06-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780465007646 / 0465007643
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1270
  • Library of Congress subjects Mind and body, Neuropsychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91055454
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.2

About the author

Gerald M. Edelman 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 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire; Tobiology; and The Remembered Present.
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