A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination : How Matter Becomes Imagination

Gerald Edelman; Professor of Psychiatry Giulio Tononi
Basic Books
9780465013777
0-465-01377-5

In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy-Neural Darwinism, Topobiology, and The Remembered Present-to present for the first time.

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an empirically supported full-scale theory of consciousness. He and the neurobiolgist Giulio Tononi show how they use ingenious technology to detect the most minute brain currents and to identify the specific brain waves that correlate with particular conscious experiences. The results of this pioneering work challenge the conventional wisdom about consciousness.