Sigmund Freud was one of the first to claim that most of our mental life operates unconsciously and that consciousness is merely a property of one part of the mind. Many cognitive scientists argue that consciousness is of very little importance in mental life and that the vast bulk of our mental operations are performed without consciousness. Consciousness thus consists of feelings projected...
April 24, 2018Mark Solms, Oliver Hugh Turnbull1 citation
This chapter examines the relationship between mind and brain in general. It suggests that the classical mind-body problem has been redefined by cognitive scientists as the problem of consciousness. The mind-body problem is a philosophical conundrum that dates back to classical antiquity, and probably beyond. David Chalmers—one of the philosophers participating in the interdisciplinary field of...
This chapter deals with methodological questions regarding how brain mechanisms of dreaming. Dreams are notoriously difficult to investigate scientifically. Any discussion of the brain mechanisms of dreaming cannot begin before the phenomenon of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep has been introduced, because REM sleep has become widely known as “dreaming sleep.” During such investigation of the...