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<DIV>From the <A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/arts/27EDEL.html?ex=1081054800&en=57f35bfd3caa505a&ei=5040">New
York Times</A>: The immensity of Dr. Edelman's project - explaining the
development of the human mind - overwhelms. Yet his ideas about how
consciousness arises from the firings of neurons begin to seem eminently
plausible because something similar seems to be happening in the hum and current
of your own brain, in the excited state brought on by Dr. Edelman's voluble
mixture of calculation, charisma, enterprise and brilliance. <BR>In his new book
[<A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300102291/qid=1080384005/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-4254512-6584907?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Wider
than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness</A>], in just 148 pages of
exposition, he tries to distill his ideas for a lay reader. This is a quixotic
task, given the nature of what he has called "the most complicated material
object in the known universe." But Dr. Edelman gives a sense of the problem's
scope and some flavor of his proposals. <BR>Located on Torrey Pines Mesa in La
Jolla, California, Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman's <A
href="http://www.nsi.edu/">The Neurosciences Institute</A> is a not-for-profit
research center dedicated to "high risk - high payoff" research designed to
discover the biological basis of higher-level brain functions in
humans.</DIV></BODY></HTML>