Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain… — 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 it encounters the world. — 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
