
This conversation is with Mark Solms, a psychologist and psychoanalyst.
Here we discuss about Mark's work on sleep, dreaming, what is consciousness, importance of cortex for consciousness, consciousness through evolution, how psychoanalysis can be helpful to understand consciousness and can we create consciousness?
Find out more about Mark's work:
http://www.psychology.uct.ac.za/psy/staff/professors/marksolms
Buy Mark's books:
Hidden springs @(https://t.co/29VgSgtAjA?amp=1)
https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Solms/e/B001K8A6FA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Research articles from Mark:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=mark+solms&size=200
Dan dennett's comment on Mark's work:
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/On_Solms.pdf
Timeline of the session:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Motivation to work on consciousness
05:03 Working on sleep
08:40 Brainstem and sleep
13:25 Why psychoanalysis?
17:57 Karl popper and psychoanalysis
19:49 What is consciousness?
27:15 Cortex and consciousness?
35:57 Understanding consciousness without the language
42:06 Are we conscious of all the experiences?
48:46 Consciousness beyond humans!
49:57 Consciousness in experience deficit (Blind, deaf etc) people
52:43 Is consciousness an illusion ?
57:51 Hard problem of consciousness
1:02:37 Consciousness and homeostasis
1:09:36 Consciousness and dream state
1:11:00 Consciousness throughout life
1:14:58 Is consciousness a product of evolution?
1:22:27 Are plants conscious?
1:27:31 How can we understand if plants are conscious?
1:30:17 If a person has damaged 'wakeful' state, can it still dream?
1:36:44 Insomnia and consciousness
1:38:21 Is consciousness continuous?
1:51:18 Consciousness in other species!
1:52:37 Unconscious mind and how it affects our behavior
1:57:51 Consciousness in human babies
2:01:19 Can we artificially generate consciousness?
2:04:38 Thank you!
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