Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!rex!ukma!uflorida!stat!kerce From: kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Kingsley F. Kerce) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Summary: Neural Darwinism book reviews Keywords: neural Darwinism Edelman Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 90 21:29:52 GMT Sender: news@stat.fsu.edu Distribution: comp.ai.neural-nets Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Lines: 59 I recently posted a request for book reviews of G. Edelman's _Neural Darwinism_. A summary follows with comments. Abbrevs: TINS = Trends in Neurosciences David Willshaw. TINS, Vol 11, No 11, pp 511-512. 1988. Francis Crick. Neural Edelmanism. TINS, Vol 12, No 7, pp 240-248. 1989. George Reeke, Jr. TINS, Vol 13, No 1, pp 11-12. 1990. Letter to the editor concerning Crick's Neural Edelmanism. Rick Michod. TINS, Vol 13, No 1, pp 12-13. 1990. Another letter about Crick's article. Francis Crick. TINS, Vol 13, No 1, pp 13-14. 1990. Reply to letters to the editor. Stephen Smoliar. Artificial Intelligence, 39, pp 121-136. 1989. Paul Patton and Thomas Parisi. Brains, computation, and selection: An essay review of Gerald Edelman's _Neural Darwinism_. Psychobiology, Vol 17, No 3, pp 326-333. 1989. The following is not a book review but was interesting. Israel Rosenfield. The Invention of Memory: A new view of the brain. Chapter "Neural Darwinism: A new approach to memory and perception." Basic Books, Inc. New York. 1988. Reviews that I haven't obtained follow. These may or may not strictly be book reviews. Israel Rosenfield. Neural Darwinism: A new approach to memory and perception. The New York Review 33 (15, Oct 9), pp 21-27. 1986. H. B. Barlow. Neuroscience: A new era? Nature 331, p 571. 1988. Rick Michod. Darwinian selection in the brain. Evolution, Vol 43, No 3, pp 694-696. 1989. R. Nelson. Philosophical issues in Edelman's neural Darwinism. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, Vol 1, pp 195-208. 1989. William Calvin. Science, June 26. 1988. Much thanks to all who responded. As of right now, the reviews I've reviewed (recurscurscursing again!) have persuaded me to put off a thorough reading of _Neural Darwinism_. Sometimes second-hand information is better than first... -- Kingsley Kerce USnail: Dept. of Computer Sci. (or Dept. of Psych.) Email: kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu Florida State University Work Phone: (904) 644-5436 Tallahassee, FL 32306