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Dreaming and the place of consciousness in nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Antti Revonsuo
Antti Revonsuo
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finlandrevonsuo@utu.fi
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Abstract

The research program defended by O'Regan & Noë (O&N) cannot give any plausible explanation for the fact that during REM-sleep the brain regularly generates subjective experiences (dreams) where visual phenomenology is especially prominent. This internal experience is almost invariably organized in the form of “being-in-the-world.” Dreaming presents a serious unaccountable anomaly for the sensorimotor research program and reveals that some of its fundamental assumptions about the nature of consciousness are questionable.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 1000 - 1001
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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