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Biologist Gerald Edelman (1929-2014) was born in America. His early work concentrated on the study of immunology and he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972 for his work leading to the understanding of the antibody’s chemical structure. [Listeners: Ralph J Greenspan; date recorded: 2005]
TRANSCRIPT: Well, we had something to do with neuro architecture, didn't we? I was visited because I think I told you I wrote this... I don't think I said this on mike... but I wrote this Biennial Catalogue piece for the Whitney Museum in 1995, which I mentioned my wife and my son laughed at because they know art and I don't. It was called The Wordless Metaphor: Visual art and the brain, and some architect had read that, and he asked me could he replace everything that I said roughly with architecture examples? And I said, ‘As long as you don't call on me – as long as you leave me alone and do as you please.’ Well, he came to visit us and he became fascinated by this idea of neuroscience and he actually began to create a field, or to suggest to his colleagues, something called neuroscience in architecture. But the problem of the perversion of labels persists, doesn't it? For example, I've said that every age uses a machine of its age to explain the mind. Well, now we have something called neuro-marketing. You put someone in a FMRI scanner and you ask him about Coke and Pepsi, and you see what lights up, and it's made a splash. I'm a little skeptical, that's all I can say. But it does bear on one point – that my personal belief... and this is purely belief not founded on anything except maybe some non-verbal experience... I very much doubt that we will ever have a cerebrascope... that we will have a device that looks into the brain of an individual, can see all these little fluctuations at the hyperastronomical realm and speed, and then say Ralph Greenspan is thinking about Vienna in the following sentence. I just don't believe that will be achievable, and it's not because of any mystical notion that the neurons don't lay the basis for that thought... it's just that going backwards is going to be impossible in my view... maybe there's some relief there.
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