Gerald M. Edelman

INTRODUCTION Francis O. Schmitt Neuroscience, the multidisciplinary study of the central nervous system, has expanded greatly during the last two decades both in numbers of investigators and in subjects being investigated at all levels of complexity, from that of molecules, brain cells, and...

Gerince megtört, deformált. We are on the brink of understanding ancient mysteries: how we know, what governs our nature, what makes a person different from a thing. In the last decade, more than twenty disciplines dealing with every aspect of the brain have contributed to a revolution in the...

A genuine understanding of how mental states arise from the structure and function of the brain would be, as William James declared in 1892, ”the scientific achievement before which all past achievements would pale.” Can a comprehensive biological theory of consciousness be constructed in...