傑拉爾德·M·埃德爾曼（Gerald M.Edelman)理學博士和醫學博士是美國洛剋大學神經科學研究基金會的主席。他在1972年獲得諾貝爾生理學奬或醫學奬。

硃利歐·托諾尼(Giulio Tononi)醫學博士和理學博士是神經科學研究所的理論和實驗神經生物學高級研究員。

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.