Why isn’t a lucid dream just a dream within a dream? Suppose I’m having a flying dream and I think, “I must be dreaming.” I’m in a dream state, so why I am not just dreaming that I’m dreaming? To put the question another way, if there’s a difference between …
In 1890 William James introduced the metaphor of the “stream of consciousness” into Western psychology: “Consciousness… is nothing jointed; it flows. A ‘river’ or ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, …
Thanks to John Schwenkler and The Brains Blog for giving me this opportunity to tell you about my work. In this first post I’d like to describe the themes and ideas of my most recent book, Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy. In later posts …
As we move from wakefulness into sleep onset and through the different stages of sleep, there are concerted changes in brain activity, the way we process external stimuli from the environment, and in the contents and structure of conscious experience. At the same time, the exact relationship between these changes …
I am glad to kick off our latest Mind & Language symposium on Jean-Rémy Martin and François Le Corre‘s “Sensory Substitution Is Substitution ,” from the journal’s April 2015 issue, with commentaries by Kevin Connolly (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn), Ophelia Deroy (Center for the Study of the Senses/Institute of Philosophy, University of London), Julian Kiverstein (Amsterdam), and Michael Proulx (Bath).
IAI.tv has published a debate between Jennifer Hornsby, Patrick Haggard, and George Ellis on the neuroscience of free will. The most recent issue of Abstracta, an open-access journal of philosophy published by Düsseldorf University Press, is now available. The New York Times has a lengthy review of Evan Thompson’s new book Waking, Dreaming, …
It’s published by Oxford, sponsored by the ASSC, edited by Anil Seth, Biyu Jade He, and Jakob Hohwy, and open for submissions in January 2015. Oh, and it’s open access. From the publisher’s description: Neuroscience of Consciousness is a new open access journal which will publish papers on the biological basis of consciousness, with an …
