Hard problem of consciousness

Biology, Physics, Chemistry. 23/09/10

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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?


About the guest

  • 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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