Research Catalog

Title

Consciousness : how matter becomes imagination / Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.

Author

Edelman, Gerald M.

Publication

London : Penguin, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tononi, Giulio

Description

xiii, 274 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Edelman and Tononi present an empirically-supported full-scale theory of consciousness. Applying the resources and insights of modern neuroscience, using the largest computer model ever constructed, they show what creates conscious experiences.

Uniform Title

Universe of consciousness

Alternative Title

Universe of consciousness

Subject

• Brain
• Consciousness
• Mind and body
• Thought and thinking
• Thinking

Note

• Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The world knot. Consciousness : philosophical paradox or scientific object? ; The special problem of consciousness ; Everyman's private theater : ongoing unity, endless variety -- Consciousness and the brain. Building a picture of the brain ; Consciousness and distributed neural activity ; Neural activity integrated and differentiated -- Mechanisms of consciousness : the Darwinian perspective. Selectionism ; Nonrepresentational memory ; Perception into memory : the remembered present -- Dealing with plethora : the dynamic core hypothesis. Integration and reenetry ; Consciousness and complexity ; Determining where the knot is tied : the dynamic core hypothesis -- Untangling the knot. Qualia and discrimination ; The conscious and the unconscious -- Observer time. Language and the self ; Thinking ; Prisoners of description.

ISBN

0140281479

OCLC

• 45437438
• SCSB-10644512

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library