title: Review of Varela et al. & Edelman creator: Dennett, Daniel C subject: Philosophy of Mind description: Two books published within months of each other, each critical of the reigning family of working assumptions known as cognitive science, each calling for a more biological vision of the mind and even sharing a slogan: we must see the mind as "embodied". Is this merely a striking coincidence or perhaps a case of convergent evolution of scientific ideas? There are further striking similarities. Francisco Varela, the principle author of The Embodied Mind, is an immunologist-turned-neuroscientist, and so is Gerald Edelman, author of Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. Both books call for a biological counter-revolution to succeed the cognitive revolution, but neither are attracted to the even more radically revolutionary "quantum gravity" speculations of Roger Penrose. date: 1992-06 type: Newspaper/Magazine Article type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/268/1/edelman.htm identifier: Dennett, Daniel C (1992) Review of Varela et al. & Edelman. [Newspaper/Magazine Article] relation: http://cogprints.org/268/