杰拉尔德·M·埃德尔曼（Gerald M.Edelman)理学博士和医学博士是美国洛克大学神经科学研究基金会的主席。他在1972年获得诺贝尔生理学奖或医学奖。

朱利欧·托诺尼(Giulio Tononi)医学博士和理学博士是神经科学研究所的理论和实验神经生物学高级研究员。

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist and a leading brain researcher show how the brain creates conscious experience In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy-Neural Darwinism, Topobiology, and The Remembered Present-to present for the first time an empirically supported full-scale theory of consciousness. He and the neurobiolgist Giulio Tononi show how they use ingenious technology to detect the most minute brain currents and to identify the specific brain waves that correlate with particular conscious experiences. The results of this pioneering work challenge the conventional wisdom about consciousness.