Mark Solms: Where Is The Source Of Consciousness?

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.

EPISODE LINKS:
- Mark's Website: https://tinyurl.com/2p97frkd
- Mark's Books: https://tinyurl.com/3d5ttxt6
- Mark's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/4kpn3za8

TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) - Introduction
(0:20) - Why is it "something it is like" to be me?
(10:07) - Mark's theory of consciousness (Affect & Feelings)
(16:19) - The Hard Problem
(26:30) - The difference between consciousness & intelligence
(30:35) - Brainstem vs cortex
(42:14) - The brainstem is the source of consciousness
(46:44) - More evidence for non-cortical consciousness theories
(54:11) - The "level of consciousness" vs "contents of consciousness" dichotomy
(1:11:21) - Mark's views on other theories of consciousness (e.g. Pansychism, Idealism etc.)
(1:30:16) - What do we do with the limited information we have about matter and reality?
(1:37:40) - Why do we keep searching for "Truth"?
(1:43:11) - Mark's religious/spiritual beliefs
(1:49:57) - Conclusion

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