Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness: Amazon.ca: Dr. Gerald Edelman Ph.D.: Books

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Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. The author, a Nobel prize winner, explains, in non-technical language, the pertinent facts about neuroscience and describes how consciousness arises in complex brains. Explores the relations of consciousness to causation, to evolution, to the development of the self, and to the origins of feelings, learning, and memory.

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2.0�toiles sur 5 Do Not Buy This Book, Sep 6 2007

Par	Ian D. Danforth "Danforiw" (Washington, D.C.) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

A self referential jargon filled text which fails to appeal to the lay reader and makes several shockingly poor assumptions.

Instead read On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins which carefully constructs a theory for the central functions of the cortex, namely prediction and construction of invariant representations of the world.

The fundamental assumption of Edelman's book is that consciousness is a unitary construct, this is just terribly terribly wrong. The mind is best described by what it cannot perceive or intentionally ignores. This is antithetical to Edelman's conjecture that if we look hard enough we will be able to see the threads that make up the cloth of consciousness. The great power of the mind is to ignore the fact that there are huge alterations, moment to moment, between what areas of the brain are actively contributing to consciousness, and *we don't notice.*

The problem with any book which seeks a consciousness down approach to understanding the mind is that introspection and self reported description of how the brain operates are very poor guides for neuroanatomy. We feel like there is an *I* viewing the world, but really there are many many different portions of the brain which are watching each other portion of the brain at any given moment. It is the harmony of these voices which produces a sense of continuous self, even as we shift among them, and the discord which creates phenomenon like dual-selves in split brain patients, voices heard by Schizophrenics, etc.

I have deep respect for Edelman as a scientist, but I am used to the quality of lay science writing provided by New Scientist, Scientific American, and writers like Watson and Feynman. In this realm he simply doesn't measure up. His journal papers on the other hand, are, of course, first rate.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Consciousness Simplified, Avril 18 2006

Par	Suzanne Gregarious (Schwenksville, PA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

Edelman's book, as well as the Crick book (The Astonishing Hypothesis), shows why both of these men won the Nobel prize....they are not only scientific geniuses, but they possess the ability to articulate their hypotheses in an elegant and simple way that render this topic comprehensible even to the average joe, not initiated in scientific jargon.

My copy of 'Wider Than the Sky' has so many highlighted and underlined sections, and dog-eared pages, that I may as well have underlined the entire book, as there is an epiphany on every page....

I found myself saying, "yeah, that's how it works." He just makes so much sense. This book is an easy read, and impossible to put down.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 Impenetrable, Ao� 21 2005

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This book is billed as an explanation of consciousness for the general reader, but nothing could be further from the truth. The prose quickly becomes impenetrable even for those with some background in psychology. Much of the time, I couldn't be sure that what I was reading really had any meaning at all. (It probably did, but it would truly take someone fairly advanced in the field to understand it.) The diagrams weren't much help either. My adivce would be to stay away unless you are already well-versed in concsiousness theory and research...but if you are, this book is probably too general for you to learn much from it.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Tough going but worth the struggle
I read and re-read Edelman & Tononi's "A Universe of Consciousness," as well as quite a few other recent books on consciousness, which I digested into my new book, "Concepts. Read more

Publi� le Juil 18 2004 par Paul Carleton

5.0�toiles sur 5 A total head trip.
The human brain consists of a hundred billion neurons that ultimately result in consciousness and self-awareness. Read more

Publi� le Mai 19 2004 par G. Merritt

5.0�toiles sur 5 The best neurobiologic construct of consciousness out there
In this new book, Gerald Edelman continues his intellectual saga regarding the scientific study of consciousness. Read more

Publi� le Avril 9 2004 par Michael M. Halassa

5.0�toiles sur 5 ...an account of consciousness to the general reader...
"Wider than the Sky" offers a concise scientific explanation of human consciousness to readers with no previous formal education in neurobiology. Read more

Publi� le Mars 21 2004 par Celia Redmore