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"With appearances by Sue Blackmore, David Chalmers, Stuart Hameroff, Stanley Krippner, Stephen LaBerge, and Jaak Panksepp" |
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The meaning of dreams has been debated since ancient times, with 20th century science dominated by Sigmund Freud’s view of dreams as the “royal road to the unconscious”. According to Freud the bizarre nature of dreams reflects repressed infantile wishes and primitive drives (the id), censored and disguised by the ego.
Hobson and Solms have argued this question in many contexts including Solms’ 2004 Scientific American article "Freud returns" and Hobson’s accompanying response "Like a bad dream". These two giants of dream science met for the first time in formal debate at the April 2006 conference “Toward a Science of Consciousness” in Tucson, Arizona.
Held Biennially since 1994, the interdisciplinary Tucson Conference are sponsored by the
Center For
Consciousness
Studies at The University of Arizona.
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Dr J Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and author of:
The Dreaming Brain,
Twelve Dreams Freud Never Had,
Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep, and Dreaming as Delirium |
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Dr Mark Solms is Chair, Department of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa and author of:
The Neuropsychology of Dreams,
The Brain and the Inner World, and
(co-author) Sleep and Dreaming – Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations”.
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