Walter Walter Jackson Freeman III (born January 30, 1927), American biologist, neuroscientist

Walter Walter Jackson Freeman III

January 30, 1927

Washington, D.C., United States of America

His main body of research has been on the perception of rabbits using electroencephalography. Based on a theoretical framework of neurodynamics that draws upon insights from chaos theory, he believes that the currency of brains is primarily meaning, and only secondarily information. In "Societies of Brains" and in other writings Freeman rejects the view that the brain uses representations to enable knowledge and behavior. Walter Freeman was born in Washington, District of Columbia. His father was the lobotomist Walter Jackson Freeman World War II His great-grandfather was William Williams Keen, the first brain surgeon in the United States. Freeman studied physics and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, electronics in the Navy in World World War II, philosophy at the University of Chicago, medicine at Yale University, internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, and neuropsychiatry at University of California, Los Los Angeles He received his Doctor of Medicine He is a Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology, University of California Berkeley. Freeman was President of the International Neural Network Society in 1994, and is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has authored over 450 articles and 4 books