A Universe of Consciousness
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A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination is the title of a 2000 book
by biologists Gerald Maurice Edelman
and Giulio Tononi
. The book aims to explain "the neural substrate of consciousness" (p. xii). It also reviews some ideas of brain organization and brain theory.
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by biologists Gerald Maurice Edelman
Gerald Edelman
Gerald Maurice Edelman is an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules...
and Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. He is an authority on sleep, and in particular the genetics and etiology of sleep.He is also interested in the nature of consciousness,...
. The book aims to explain "the neural substrate of consciousness" (p. xii). It also reviews some ideas of brain organization and brain theory.
See also
- Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of ConsciousnessWider than the SkyWider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness is the title of an English-language book on neuroscience by the neuroscientist Gerald M. Edelman. Yale University Press published the book in 2004 . The book includes a glossary, a bibliographic note, and an index. The title alludes to an...
, a similar book by Edelman