Mark Solms is professor of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town. He is also a psychoanalyst, and while Mark’s early research focused on the brain mechanisms of sleep and dreaming, he is currently working on the neural correlates of consciousness and affect. In this episode, Robinson and Mark talk about his new book The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. More particularly, they discuss the hard problem of consciousness and how recent advances in neuroscience have pointed toward a solution.
The Hidden Spring: https://a.co/d/jcvbmLw
Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mark_Solms
OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
00:47 Introduction
03:09 What is Neuropsychoanalysis?
11:54 Was Freud a Neuroscientist?
26:17 What is the Hard Problem of Consciousness?
36:24 What is the Relationship between Dreaming and Consciousness?
54:44 Patients without a Cortex
01:03:01 Does Consciousness Have a Purpose?
01:14:53 Daniel Dennett and Karl Friston
01:24:49 Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.
