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Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience By Mark Solms ( Other Press )
Release Date: 2003-06-17
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Featuring an introduction by Oliver SacksThe "inner world" of the mind (being a mind and living a life) was the traditional preserve of psychoanalysis and related disciplines. Neuroscientists did not consider subjective mental states like consciousness, emotion, and dreaming, to be serious topics for brain research. However, in recent years—following the demise of behaviorism, the advent of functional brain imaging technology, and the emergence of a molecular neurobiology—these topics have suddenly assumed center stage in many leading neuroscientific laboratories around the world. Not surprisingly, this has produced an explosion of new insights into the natural laws that govern our inner life.The Brain and the Inner World is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries, pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience.MARK SOLMS is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst who has done pioneering research into brain mechanisms of dreaming. He is co-chair of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society and, with Karen Kaplan-Solms, author of Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis.OLIVER TURNBULL is a Cambridge-trained neuropsychologist. He has published widely in neuroscientific journals, primarily on topics of visuo-spatial perception. He is Secretary of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society.
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"The Brain and the Inner World", by Solms & Turnbull, is a very didatic and accessible text on how the neuroscientific functioning of the human brain and mind is able to create full human expression, and how the brain's neural net supports and enables the emergence of psychic conscious and unconscious phenomena. I recommend it as a textbook for my students.
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An excellent book of the new science of the mind!
As electrical engineer I have always been very much interested in the duality problem of wave-particle which I think I solved in 1991, when I realized that energy is the underlying substance, which we cannot perceive directly and that can manifest itself as a wave or as particle. When I found this excellent, easy to read book, by Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull, it was not a surprise for me what is written in its second chapter:
Dual-aspect monism accepts that we are made of only one type of stuff(that is why is a monism position), but it also suggest that this stuff is perceived in two different ways(hence dual-aspect monism)
It seems that perception, or a higher perception, is the clue to a better understanding of the mind-body problem, which should be near to the buddhist concept of bare attention, as described by Nyanaponika Thera, in his book the Heart of Buddhist Meditation, but that attention attends just to bare facts of perception presented either through the 5 physical senses or through, not the mind, but the 5 additional inner senses of the Higher Mind, which would include the 5 outer and 5 inner senses, but this is just a working hypothesis for a science that has started to understand the inner world of the brain.
My real congratulations to the Authors!!!
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this book is invaluable ( stanlipp )
i thought solms was a bad guy -- hobson in his dream literature kind of racks him over the coals and his real target of course is freud. being an old-style humanities liberal the discontent of civilization kind of person, i was half ashamed of my past, and have been studiously reading the Right stuff to meet hobson's criteria, and lo and behold, solms is not at all a bad guy. i think he's one of the best writers on current neuroscience. a lot of what he has done here i read first in affective neuroscience, but i had a hard time putting the pieces in place although i understood the pieces themselves reasonably ok. i do computer science, so i'm not intimated by complex systems, even ones with multiple inscrutable names for the same thing -- after all, i helped invent c++. but solms understands to my understanding how it all fits together, and i would not have probably reached that level of integration, if ever, on my own, for a number of years. for that, i am truly in his debt. i mean, i don't think these people write these books just for money. they are in some bizarre way in my opinion giving their best for civilization and civility. to me, in the shadow of the human slaughter going on, this material is crucial to a discussion of any national policy. if we don't understand why we do the awful things we are capable of, as well as the good things, how can we ever hope to tilt the balance. what solms has done is given modern neuroscience a story that someone like myself can understand -- for me, i can appreciate his binding freud to neuroscience, with hardly a flinch. i need to understand as a person what it means to be a sexual person, to be a parent, to be a child -- solms grounds my understanding in both neuro-science and the world i narrate to myself to understand adversity. i bought a copy for my 16 year old daughter. i don't know if she will read it, but that's how important a contribution to understanding this book is -- but one should never end a sentence with "is" -- so, i tacked this on for a better form :-)
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Recommended ( srdjan_miskovic )
The subtitle of this book is "An introduction to the neuroscience of subjective experience" and as such, it is one of the finest books of its kind. Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull [henceforth, MS & OT] have come through with a very accessible introductory text aimed at non-specialists (the text can also serve as a useful review to slightly more experienced students). In the span of ten, information rich chapters, MS & OT manage to give an overview of everything from the very basics of neuroanatomy, neurochemistry and neurophysiology to such issues as the neural bases of emotion, consciousness, memory, dreams and hallucinatory states and more. Some space is also devoted to the elementary philosophy of mind issues. For example, after discussing Chalmers' "hard problem" of consciousness and surveying the variety of proposed stances on the problem of consciousness, they explore at some length their own position (dual-aspect monism). This view holds that there is only one kind of stuff (thus, it is a monist position) but that there are two different ways of accessing/experiencing the underlying `psychic apparatus' - it can be introspectively accessed (as mind) and/or it can be observed from a third-person perspective and objectively studied by science (as brain tissue). Perhaps, similar to the way in which physicists have come to accept that it is equally plausible to speak of light as a wave AND a particle, those in the field may come to view mind/brain as just two sides of the same coin - the seeming dissonance between subjectivity and matter may simply be an incidental artifact of our perceptual systems.
The dual-aspect monist position becomes important to the rest of the book as MS & OT make the case that the underlying `psychic apparatus' can and should be studied both from a mind and a brain perspective. In this regard, MS & OT agree with Kandel (the Nobel prize winning neuroscientist) that in many ways psychoanalysis, since having emerged as a discipline in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century, continues to provide a remarkably comprehensive theory of mind and that mutual benefits could accrue from fostering cross-dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience (Freud's abandoned "Project"). According to the authors, it is inconceivable that two separate disciplines should be studying the same underlying thing (the `psychic apparatus') while remaining completely isolated from each other. MS & OT take up the challenge of merging the two and in the book they show how some of the neuroscience data can be smoothly integrated with psychoanalytic theory. MS who was trained both as a neuropsychologist and a psychoanalyst in particular has been a key figure in forming an international neuro-psychoanalysis society - its board of editors is populated by key figures from neuroscience (Kandel, Libet, Llinas, LeDoux, Damasio, to name just a few) and psychoanalysis. Of course, it is to be expected that this endeavor has generated controversy as well, more so in some circles than others, but it is up to the reader to judge the relative strength of the argument made by MS&OT.
The work of different researchers is spotlighted in the book including that of Damasio, Panksepp, LeDoux, Hobson, and Solms' own research on the neuropsychology of dreaming. MS&OT have the chance to focus on some of the newest neuroscientific discoveries such as the topic of mirror neurons and the potential neurological bases underlying psychiatric treatment (both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic). This is a great introductory book; it gives a comprehensive and reasonable overview of the relevant issues in the field.
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The Brain and the Inner World:An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subejctive Experience ( maritah2 )
This book is a gem. It is clearly written so that the layman can understand the intricate workings of the brain. However, it is not just the biology of the brain that Solms addresses but the very meaning of SELF. What makes us who we are? The book is fascinating, making every life understandable, including all our quirks and dreams. Excellent book.
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