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Necessary criteria for a selectionist theory of higher brain function
An early theoretical contribution to TNGS came in 1978, when Edelman proposed his Group Selection and Phasic Reentrant Signalling: A Theory of Higher Brain Function. Edelman lays out five necessary requirements that a biological theory of higher brain function must satisfy.


 * The theory should be consistent with the fields of embryology, neuroanatomy, and neurophysiology.
 * The theory should account for learning and memory, and temporal recall in a distributed system.
 * The theory should account how memory is updated on the basis of realtime experience.
 * The theory should account for how higher brain systems mediate experience and action.
 * The theory should account for the necessary, if not sufficient, conditions for the emergence of awareness.