…what I'm getting at when I use a term like machine. It may be in a similar sense that I'm that Gerald Edelman talks about spooks, which also mustn't be permitted. And he gets particularly worried about quantal theories of consciousness, which somehow omit…

…there's a problem of composition or coherence or binding. How is all brought together in the absence of any convergence? Now, Edelman again would see this in terms of what he calls reentrant signaling, a very massive sort of intercourse in parallel and…

…of human design I remembered what I forgot but I think it's probably another expression of this enormous redundancy or degeneracy as Edelman calls it and this is the great neuro robustness of identity, so that you can have a remarkable amount of brain…

…suddenly... Rose and... No, I had one grand evening in conversation. It was... It was five years ago when I really met Gerald Edelman for the first time. I had struggled with one of his impenetrable books and got a feeling of significance coupled with…