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