Bright Air, Brilliant Fire On the Matter of the Mind

Name: Bright Air, Brilliant Fire On the Matter of the Mind
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ISBN: 9780465007646

ISBN-10: 0465007643

ISBN-13: 9780465007646

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Gerald M. Edelman

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Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 6/16/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.54" wide x 8.73" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Problems



Mind



Putting the Mind Back Into Nature



The Matter of the Mind



Origins



Putting Psychology on A Biological Basis



Morphology and Mind Completing Darwin's Program



Topobiology: Lessons From The Embryo



The Problems Reconsidered



Proposals



The Sciences of Recognition



Neural Darwinism



Memory and Concepts: Building A Bridge to Consciousness



Consciousness The Remembered Present



Language and Higher-Order Consciousness



Attention and the Unconscious



Layers and Loops: a Summary



Harmonies



A Graveyard of Isms Philosophy and Its Claims



Memory and the Individual Soul Against Silly Reductionism



Higher Products: Thoughts Judgments, Emotions



Diseases of the Mind The Reintegrated Self



Is It Possible to Construct A Conscious Artifact?



Symmetry and Memory: on The Ultimate Origins of Mind


Epilogue


Mind Without Biology A Critical Postscript


Selected Readings


Credits


Index