Professor Mark Solms has spent his entire career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. Best known for identifying the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for bringing psychoanalytic insights into modern neuroscience, he is director of Neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), an Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. He is also Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association (since 2013). He founded the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society in 2000 and he was a Founding Editor (with Ed Nersessian) of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis. He is Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York, a Trustee of the Neuropsychoanalysis Fund in London, and Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Trust in Cape Town
🕒 What to Expect:
0:00 Introduction
2:01 Michael Levin's question to Mark: "What is the meaning of life?"
10:40 Levin's Lab & Work
14:55 The Golden Age of Consciousness Studies (Friston, Fields, Levin, Solms, Watson etc)
24:44 Dreaming vs REM Sleep
27:37 New Study on Why We Dream
35:15 Homeostasis & Uncertainty
44:18 Dreams & The Hard Problem of Consciousness
58:58 What did Sigmund Freud do right?
1:04:15 Defining features of Affect: Valence, Qualia & Action
1:10:35 The Knowledge Argument
1:16:22 Thomas Nagel believes Mark is on to something!
1:23:52 The Felt Uncertainty Theory
1:29:09 New work on Artificial Consciousness
1:34:55 Conclusion
🔗 Episode links:
👉Round 1: https://youtu.be/qqM76ZHIR-o
👉Mark's Website: https://tinyurl.com/2p97frkd
👉Mark's Books: https://tinyurl.com/3d5ttxt6
👉Mark's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/4kpn3za8
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