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Second Nature
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Second Nature
BRAIN SCIENCE AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
Gerald M. Edelman
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Haven and London
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Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund.
Copyright © 2006 by Gerald M. Edelman.
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Edelman, Gerald M.
Second nature : brain science and human knowledge / Gerald M.
Edelman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12039-4 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-300-12039-7 (clothbound : alk. paper)
1. Brain. 2. Neurosciences. I. Title.
QP376E323 2006
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For Judith, Eric, and David
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And going on, e to things like evil, and beauty, and
hope . . .
Which end is nearer to God; if I may use a religious
metaphor. Beauty and hope, or the fundamental laws? I
think that the right way, of course, is to say that what we
have to look at is the whole structural interconnection of the
thing: and that all the sciences, and not just the sciences