Nobel Laureate Professor Gerald Edelman: with ABC presenter Natasha Mitchell in his office at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. 2010

On the heals of a major new article from Gerald Edelman (and Bernard Baars), he is also featured this week on All in the Mind with Natasha Mitchell. This is a rare treat - Edelman rarely does interviews and, as best I remember, I have never heard a recent interview with him.

Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman on consciousness, creativity and 'neural Darwinism'

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Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman rarely gives interviews. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1972 for his work on antibodies, but at 81 he's a true Renaissance man of the brain, heading up what he describes as a 'scientific monastry' in San Diego. He joins Natasha Mitchell to talk consciousness, creativity and 'neural Darwinism'.

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Guests

Gerald M. Edelman

Further Information

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Gerald Edelman - Nobel Prize biography

Gerald Edelman - Wikipedia profile
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The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego

Youtube video of Snowball the dancing Cockatoo

Story about Snowball the Cockatoo on NPR's Science Friday

Details of Darwinian robot, Darwin VII

Publications

Title: Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge
Author: Gerald M. Edelman
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

Title: Wider than the sky: a revolutionary view of consciousness
Author: Gerald M. Edelman
Publisher: Penguin, 2004

Title: Neural Darwinism: The Theory Of Neuronal Group Selection
Author: Gerald M. Edelman
Publisher: Basic Books, 1987.

Title: The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
Author: Gerald M. Edelman
Publisher: Basic Books, 1990

Title: Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On The Matter Of The Mind
Author: Gerald M. Edelman
Publisher: Basic Books, 1993.

Title: A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination
Author: Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi
Publisher: Basic Books, 2001.

Presenter and Producer

Natasha Mitchell

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