Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge

A renowned neuroscientist explains how our brains and bodies give rise to knowledge, creativity, and mental experience

Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., is director, The Neurosciences Institute; president, Neurosciences Research Foundation; and chairman, Department of Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute. The recipient of many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Edelman is the author of Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness, published by Yale University Press.