Neural Darwinism

The host of Gerald Edelman’s presentation said that we are what we think and that with our mind we create the world. He proposed that by reaching, searching and researching we could begin to understand how the mind arises from the brain. The characteristics of the mind or consciousness are that it is a form of awareness created through a process. It is an entirely individual and personal notion, varying infinitely from person to person. It is an intentional and continuous yet changing.
Neural Darwinism, the explanation of high order brain functions is presented through the interactions of neurons of the dynamic core with causal input and output in the world. Edelman stated that we have reached a remarkable juncture in neuroscience and are now on the brink of understanding something previously left to the philosophers. He discusses the illusion of time and how our beliefs represent the past, our desires the present, and our intentions, the future. Past and present are concepts, they are relative to memory and emotion. Future is assumption: fantasy and reasoning through probability, uncertain because of the unpredictable facts and variances that we can only assume.