Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse a number of models (Hebb 1949 . . Hayek 1952 . . Kendel 1981) have been… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe. — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.” — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra -… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
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… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
