BRIGHT AIR BRILLIANT FIRE (Basic, 1992)
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The book summarizes Edelman's theory of neural development and consciousness formation. In practice, Edelman extends an account of the development of perceptual categories into a general account of consciousness.
The reentry mechanism between maps yields a process of "global mapping" that leads to the creation of perceptual categories and generalization. Edelman distinguishes between primary consciousness (imagery and sensations) and higher-order consciousness (language and self-consciousness). Primary consciousness requires memory (a process of both storing and recategorizing), value (a way to rank stimuli and eventually to learn), discrimination of the self from the non-self, a way to represent chronology, and global reentrant pathways connecting all these structures. Higher-order consciousness. Edelman thinks that science cannot solve the problem of qualia because no two people will have the same qualia. |
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