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119 - Mark Solms: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Source of Consciousness
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The Brain Mechanisms of Dreaming
In the mid-1980s, Alan Hobson said that dreaming was like an ink plot. There's no meaning in it. It's not psychologically motivated. You can come to that ink plot after the fact that you can findmeaning in it. But the ink plot itself is mindless, meaningless without intentionality. And he also emphasized the fact that acetylcholine is motivationly neutral. This is endogenous activation from the brainstem. And so it creates this chaotic splotch. So utterly like our ordinary experience,. precisely because it's randomly generated, there's no intrinsic meaning. In other words, I began my research on that subject in the 1980s.
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