Wider Than The Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness.

EDELMAN, Gerald M.

Item Number: 2864

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

First edition. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Charlie with thanks and warm wishes Gerry.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Gerald M. Edelman won the Nobel Prize for discoveries in immunology before turning his mind to what Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson has called "the master unsolved problem of biology: how the hundred million nerve cells of the brain work together to create consciousness." Wider than the sky: the phenomenal gift of consciousness presents a succinct account of Edelman’s proposals on consciousness and is the most recent in a stream of related publications over the last three decades.