Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness is an English-language book on neuroscience by the neuroscientist Gerald M. Edelman.
The title alludes to an English-language poem written by Emily Dickinson in about 1862.
In that poem, Dickinson describes the brain as "wider than the sky", "deeper than the sea", and "just the weight of God".
A scientific analysis of consciousness must answer the question: How can the firings of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions?
Both books put forward the theory of neuronal group selection, also known as neural Darwinism.