Problems of Consciousness

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Problems of Consciousness

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Abramson, H.A. Problems of consciousness: transactions of the first conference, March 20-21, 1950, New York. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1951

This is a verbatim report. Participants in the conference were 18 outstanding scientists from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, physiology, biology, embryology, and zoology. Discussion material is presented on an informal basis and centers around the problem of a sleep-wakefulness cycle, psychoanalytic concepts of sleep and dreams, perception of pain, phenomena of hypnosis, and consciousness and the chemistry of time.

The major purpose of the conference was to attempt to overcome the difficulties in communication, both emotional and semantic, between the many disciplines involved in the discussions and thus, through mutual understanding, to move toward a unification of interpretation in all fields of science, so that a "science of man" might be developed in which medicine is considered to play a central role. - JAMA Network

Publication Date

1951

Publisher

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation

City

New York

Keywords

consciousness, conference papers and proceedings

Problems of Consciousness

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