Constitution Quote 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.

— Gerald Edelman

“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

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

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

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

— Gerald Edelman

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

“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

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

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

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

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not…

— Gerald Edelman