>At the recent ISMB conference in San Diego, the keynote was given by
>Gerald Edelmann of the Neurosciences Institute (www.nsi.edu). Edelmann
>argued for the model of consciousness as arising from an active process of
>self-organisation, based on a kind of Darwinism of neural functions
>(groups of neurons and connections between groups of neurons evolving
>through a process of differentiation and selection, as in Darwinian
>natural selection). He strongly attacked the idea of an 'anatomical locus
>of consciousness', and the idea that there are a definite set of pathways
>which 'process' input much like a modern computer does.
That would be Gerald R. Edelman, not Edelmann -- Immunologist, Nobel prize winner w/ Rodney R. Porter 1972 for work on the chemical structure of antibodies. Important work on antibody combining site, Fab/Fc fragments, heavy/light chains, amino acid sequence of immunoglobulin molecule (1969)?
Anita