ABSTRACT
Most approaches to the understanding of consciousness are concerned with the contributions of specic brain areas or groups of neurons. By contrast, in considering what kinds of neural processes can account for key properties of conscious experience such as its unity and its diversity, the research undertaken by G.M. Edelman and his research group at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego addresses a general theory of the brain and consciousness. eir ndings have been published in a series of books that are accessible to a broad audience : [Edelman, 1987, 1989, 1992, 2004, 2006], [Edelman and Tonioni, 2000].
