Gerald Edelman Quotes

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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 disease,…
• Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
• Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,
• 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…
• Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable,…
• Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
• The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you…
• 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…

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