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Wired for Evolution |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Richard M. Restak |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,621 Words, 21,976 Characters |
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BRIGHT AIR, BRILLIANT FIRE
On the Matter of the Mind
Gerlad M. Edelman
New York: Basic Books, 1992
280 pp., $25.00
Gerald Edelman has a favorite joke. It concerns two Jewish visitors from America on their first trip to Israel. Following a day of touring they wander into a nightclub where a comedian is delivering one-liners in Hebrew. After sitting silently for a few minutes, one of the tourists breaks into uncontrollable laughter. Wondering, his companion asks: "What are you laughing at? You don't even understand Hebrew." The other, still laughing hysterically, responds: "That doesn't matter. I trust these people."
While reading Bright air, Brilliant Fire I found myself, at one time or another, identifying with both these tourists. I encountered things I had difficu...
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...lman proposes in this engaging and challenging book, a biological theory of brain function and consciousness, both based on the facts of evolution and development? Principally one. Physicist Max Plank anticipated it over half a century ago: "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve."
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