Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.
Contents
[Pt.] I. Biologically speaking : an experimental autobiography. Brain birth : a non-immaculate conception -- Brain growth : the illusion and the reality of being -- Brain state : a self-organizing process -- [part] II. My experimental nature. The genesis of my experimentalism -- Marginal modes of being -- Experimental social structures -- [part] III. The nature of my experiments. Psychoanalysis as thesis -- Brain science as antithesis -- Cognitive neuroscience as synthesis -- [part] IV. Experiments of nature. Brain shock -- Brain death -- Heart failure -- Back ache -- Sleep strangulation -- [part] V. Implications of my work. Philosophical implications -- Scientific implications -- Dream science and the humanities -- Functional conclusions.
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Summary
A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work through the lens of dreaming and consciousness.