Gerald Edelman
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"To be of adaptive value categorization must entail generalization, or the ability on the basis of a few stimuli to respond or recognize a much larger range of stimuli. To the degree that such generalization takes place, it allows the individual to deal with novel instances and to ignore other stimuli within a behavioral context…it relieves the organism of the burden of storing large numbers of single instances." --Gerald Edelman, cited in PD |
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Gerald Maurice Edelman (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system.
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