推荐《意识的宇宙》

虽然网上偶尔能遇到牛人写的basic book 下载，但真正的好书往往只能看看网上书店的介绍。
在周六不抱什么希望的情况下，竟然看到了神经科学方面的牛人edelman 的这本书，真是如获至宝啊。和他比起来，《惊人的假说》的作者crick 简直就是业余。

目前看了几章，内容紧凑，信息丰富，主题明确。和一般的科普书比起来，要专业的多。唯一不爽的是翻译，当然不是很差，但很多用词要看几遍才明白，如果直接看英文，效果应该更好。

如果要研究脑的高级功能，这本书相信能让你获益匪浅。

《意识的宇宙》 上海科学技术出版社 2004年5月第一版 27元。
『美』杰拉尔德·埃德尔曼 朱利欧·托诺尼

ps：诺贝尔奖得主科学丛书

读完全书，先简单说点想法。作者推出一个意识的动态核心假设，但描述的内容比较多，证据好象不足。也许主要目的是科普，不想把文字搞的太枯燥。以后有兴趣，我要找书上的参考文献看看。

不过书中有些概念还是不错的，以后再写吧。

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However, the comparison between Crick and Edelman seems not balanced. Both of them were winners of Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine; and both won the Nobel Prize in the fields unrelated neuroscience – Crick discovered DNA mechanism with other scientists and Edelman discovered antibody mechanism with another scientist. And, they all turned into the neuroscience field after they lost the intensive interests on the original fields.

 

Overall evaluating these two, Crick has more credit in science due to the DNA mechanism is more important than antibody mechanism.

 

In the neuroscience field, none of their hypotheses is effective that much.