Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind

by Gerald M . Edelman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.47

  In this book, one of the world's brain scientists takes us on a dazzling tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, Descartes, Schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and individuality. The book argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brain. Underlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in history. This book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosphy and more.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.47

  The author takes the reader on a tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, Descartes, Schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and invididuality. He argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brain. Underlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in history. This book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosophy, and more. Frequently contentious, Edelman attacks cognitive and behavioral approaches, which leave biology out of the picture, as well as the currently fashionable view of the brain as a computer. Gerald Edelman received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1972.