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> [Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/each-brain-is-exposed-to-different-circumstances-it-s-very-likely/)

[Gerald Edelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-edelman/)

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## More by Gerald Edelman

> [Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/each-brain-is-exposed-to-different-circumstances-it-s-very-likely/)

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> [“Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/memory-results-from-a-process-of-continual-re-categorization-which-by/)

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> [Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/most-theoretical-work-since-the-proposals-of-hebb-1949-and-hayek-1952/)

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> [A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/a-knowledge-of-brain-science-will-provide-one-of-the-major/)

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> [Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/early-human-thought-proceeded-by-metaphor/)

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> [Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/science-is-imagination-in-the-service-of-the-verifiable-truth-and/)

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> [“Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/consciousness-may-be-seen-as-the-haughty-and-restless-second-cousin/)

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> [The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/the-computer-is-not-in-our-opinion-a-good-model-of-the-mind-but-it-is/)

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> [Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/many-cognitive-psychologists-see-the-brain-as-a-computer-but-every/)

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> [We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/we-re-inquiring-into-the-deepest-nature-of-our-constitutions-how-we/)

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> [The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/the-analogy-between-the-mind-and-a-computer-fails-for-many-reasons/)

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> [Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/evolution-works-by-selection-not-by-instruction-there-is-no-final/)

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> [Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/your-brain-develops-depending-on-your-individual-history-what-has/)

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> [Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/hebb-place-the-law-of-effect-at-the-synaptic-level-by-proposing-a/)

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> [Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-edelman/hayek-made-a-quite-fruitful-suggestion-made-contemporaneously-by-the/)

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