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Can we develop a “Dream Catcher Test?”: A Novel Approach to the Study of Consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2007

George P. Prigatano
George P. Prigatano
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
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Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon, by Antti Revonsuo. 2006. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 473 pp., $55.00 (HB).

In his Prologue, Antti Revonsuo describes the main task of his book: “To depict a biological research program on consciousness.” (pg. xviii). He is interested in drawing upon proven research strategies to describe how we can study consciousness from a biological perspective that would allow us to ultimately answer the question: “What the place of the subjective psychological reality is in the physical universe?” (pg. xvi). In short, why has consciousness as a biological reality emerged to aid the process of evolution?

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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , March 2007 , pp. 374 - 376
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© 2007 The International Neuropsychological Society

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