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Bright air, brilliant fire - on the matter of the mind

Paperback • 1992

Bright air, brilliant fire - on the matter of the mind

By Gerald Ames

1 Ratings • 3.0 of 5

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About the book

We are on the verge of a revolution in neuroscience as significant as the Galilean revolution in physics or the Darwinian revolution in biology. Nobel laureate Gerald M. Edelman takes issue with the many current cognitive and behavioural approaches to the brain that leave biology out of the picture, and argues that the workings of the brain more closely resemble the living ecology of a jungle than they do the activities of a computer. Some startling conclusions emerge from these ideas: individua...Show more

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9780465007646

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1992

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Bright air, brilliant fire - on the matter of the mind

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