What Makes You Uniquely "You"?


	What Makes You Uniquely "You"?

einbar

1-18-2009 1:13 AM

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Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman your brain is one-of-a-kind in the history of the universe

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What does it mean to be sentient? What is the self? When issues become imponderable, many researchers demur, but neuroscientist <A class="external-link" href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1972/edelman-bio.html" target="_blank">Gerald Edelman</A> dives right in.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=AAA89803-5B1A-4AF0-B880-126340F23C49"><DIV>In Edelman’s grand theory of the mind, consciousness is a biological phenomenon and the brain develops through a process similar to natural selection. Neurons proliferate and form connections in infancy; then experience weeds out the useless from the useful, molding the adult brain in sync with its environment.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=AAA89803-5B1A-4AF0-B880-126340F23C49"><DIV align="center" width="100%"><DIV> he has written eight books on the subject, the most recent being <A class="external-link" href="http://www.amazon.com/Second-Nature-Brain-Science-Knowledge/dp/0300120397" v=""><I>Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge</I></A>.</DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=AAA89803-5B1A-4AF0-B880-126340F23C49"><DIV>In his conversation with DISCOVER</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=AAA89803-5B1A-4AF0-B880-126340F23C49"><DIV>Edelman delves deep into this untamed territory, exploring the evolution of consciousness, the narrative power of memory, and his goal of building a humanlike artificial mind.</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=D614F999-A716-415A-A4C5-737171F7E5D7" href="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=D614F999-A716-415A-A4C5-737171F7E5D7" style="font-size: 11px;">content.clipmarks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=D614F999-A716-415A-A4C5-737171F7E5D7"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ovHv3yZM4KE&hl=en&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" original-height="85%" original-width="100%" t="OEgsToPDskIkd0a6PWWWTuLfRuHcxRjU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FB355D15-A64F-411F-8442-023B894AC301/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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