Comments on: Jean-Pierre Changeux, Gerald Edelman, and How the Mind Works

By: Ronald Schleyer

Ronald Schleyer — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:37:10 +0000

Why not dismiss these vapid mechanists altogether? Their arguments are mostly facile smoke and mirrors, typical of fast-talking Frenchmen. Let’s get on with a truly idealist theory of consciousness, such as the never mentioned (by the likes of Edelman and Changeux) G.W.F. Hegel (d. 1831) and his brilliant ‘Philosophy of Subjective Mind.’ The question is SUBJECTIVITY and its meaning, just as the question is LIFE and its origins from and only from the living substance. If you want to get the fundament, consider the question of the life of the finite in the infinite, or the finite life nurtured by Eternal Life. Too much for you? Too bad!

By: Nora Abrous

Nora Abrous — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:00:44 +0000

This is more a question than a comment. From outside it is unclear what are the differences between Changeux’s and Edelman’s theories?

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By: Nicolas Le Novere

Nicolas Le Novere — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:01:21 +0000

Just a precision about “Edelman’s theory of neuronal group selection”. It is actually derived from Changeux’s theory of the epigenesis by selective stabilization of synapses (Changeux J.-P., Courrège P., Danchin A. (1973). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 70: 2974-2978; Changeux J.-P., Danchin, A. (1976). Selective stabilization of developing synapses as a mechanism for the specificication of neuronal networks. Nature 264: 705-712.) The “groups” were even already there, but called “graph”.

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Edelman, Evolution and Encephalisation « Neuroanthropology — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:01:53 +0000

[...] To be honest, I have not met many people who truly understand every aspect of Edelman’s theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS). In fact, if I have gone some way to understanding some part of his theory, then it has been largely through my reading of secondary literature material, returning frequently to his new books and then discussing his work some of my friends like Dr Juan Dominguez and Dr Ryszard Maleszka who give me the impression they suitably understand TNGS. I look forward to hopefully discussing TNGS with Daniel Lende one day who wrote a fantastic blog about Changeux and Edelman [...]

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mario pissacroia — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:28:01 +0000

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The Everyday Brain and Our Everyday Life « Neuroanthropology — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:42:40 +0000

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