TY - BOOK AU - Edelman,Gerald M AU - Tononi,Giulio TI - A universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination SN - 0465013767 AV - QP411 .E345 2000 U1 - 612.82 22 PY - 2000/// PB - Basic Books KW - Consciousness KW - Brain KW - Neuropsychology KW - Mind and body KW - Thought and thinking KW - Evolution KW - physiology KW - Imagination KW - Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical KW - Thinking N1 - Index; Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-264) and index; The world knot: Consciousness : philosophical paradox or scientific object?; The special problem of consciousness; Everyman's private theater : ongoing unity, endless variety -- Consciousness and the brain: Building a picture of the brain; Consciousness and distributed neural activity; Neural activity integrated and differentiated -- Mechanisms of consciousness : the Darwinian perspective; Selectionism; Nonrepresentational memory; Perception into memory : the remembered present -- Dealing with plethora : the dynamic core hypothesis: Integration and reenetry; Consciousness and complexity; Determining where the knot is tied : the dynamic core hypothesis -- Untangling the knot: Qualia and discrimination; The conscious and the unconscious -- Observer time: Language and the self; Thinking; Prisoners of description ER -