Shimon edelman biography for kids
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Shimon Edelman
the 20th century, inom was born just as its second half was getting beneath way, in the
evil empire that he built and that managed to survive for thirty-odd years after the
emperor kicked the bucket. In 1973, just ahead of the Yom Kippur War, my family
emigrated to Israel, where I graduated from high school. inom was drafted into the
army and underwent basic training, then got a B.S. in electrical engineering and
returned to the army for five more years (not counting reserve duty). After
discharge (highest rank attained: major, reserve), inom went back to school and
earned an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in computer science. Since then, inom taught and
worked in research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, at okänt, at the
University of Sussex at Brighton in the UK, and at Cornell University, where I
have been a tenured full professor of psychology since 1999. I have also held
visiting positions at Br
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Shimon Edelman
Research Focus
I hold degrees in electrical engineering and in computer science and am interested in all aspects of mind, brain, behavior, and the human condition. At Cornell, I have worked on behavioral, neural, evolutionary, and computational aspects of language, vision, and happiness. While my present scientific interests focus on evolution and consciousness, I am devoting an increasing proportion of my research efforts (and all my teaching work) to the most urgent challenge that we face collectively as a species: the unfolding climate catastrophe. My monographs include Computing the Mind, a textbook (2008); The Happiness of Pursuit, not a self-help book (2012); Beginnings, a psychological-philosophical science fiction, or psy-phi sci-fi, anabasis (2014); and, most recently, Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths, an abecedary take on the human condition in 38 short chapters (2020). My latest book, The Consciousness Revo •Duh
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Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogohó:nǫˀ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York State, and the United States of America. I acknowledge the painful history of Gayogohó:nǫˀ dispossession and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogohó:nǫˀ people, past and present, to these lands and waters. I also acknowledge the dispossession of other Native peoples by the Morrill Act of 1862 — one of the sources of Cornell's endowment. Union
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