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J. Allan Hobson

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Description:J. Allan Hobson's scientific experimentation began in childhood, with a soot-filledinvestigation into the capacity of a chimney to admit Santa Claus. (He discovered that even with thedamper open the chimney was far too narrow.) Hobson's life as an experimentalist has continuedthrough a pioneering career devoted to aligning psychology and biology and to investigating therelationship of dreaming and consciousness. In Dream Life, Hobson conducts anexperimental investigation into his life and work. Hobson charts his developingconsciousness through a vividly imagined conception (in October of 1932), birth, and babyhood,offering a theory about "protoconsciousness" in fetuses and infants. He recounts his youthful zealfor scientific discovery, his early sexual experimentation, and his education. He describes takingon the entrenched Freudians at Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, as a maverick psychiatrist whowanted to replace psychoanalysis with biological science. He describes his further studies, hismarriages and love affairs, his travels, and what he learned about the brain from hiswhiplash-induced amnesia after a 1963 automobile accident and from his "brain death" after a strokein 2001. Through it all, Hobson uses his life as the ultimate case study for his theory that REMsleep provides a test pattern that allows the brain to develop "offline." Dreams -- most intense inREM sleep, when the brain is active -- need no Freudian-style decoding, he says. Dreaming is aglorious mental state, to be enjoyed and studied for what it tells us about consciousness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir (The MIT Press). To get started finding Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir (The MIT Press), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: J. Allan Hobson's scientific experimentation began in childhood, with a soot-filledinvestigation into the capacity of a chimney to admit Santa Claus. (He discovered that even with thedamper open the chimney was far too narrow.) Hobson's life as an experimentalist has continuedthrough a pioneering career devoted to aligning psychology and biology and to investigating therelationship of dreaming and consciousness. In Dream Life, Hobson conducts anexperimental investigation into his life and work. Hobson charts his developingconsciousness through a vividly imagined conception (in October of 1932), birth, and babyhood,offering a theory about "protoconsciousness" in fetuses and infants. He recounts his youthful zealfor scientific discovery, his early sexual experimentation, and his education. He describes takingon the entrenched Freudians at Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, as a maverick psychiatrist whowanted to replace psychoanalysis with biological science. He describes his further studies, hismarriages and love affairs, his travels, and what he learned about the brain from hiswhiplash-induced amnesia after a 1963 automobile accident and from his "brain death" after a strokein 2001. Through it all, Hobson uses his life as the ultimate case study for his theory that REMsleep provides a test pattern that allows the brain to develop "offline." Dreams -- most intense inREM sleep, when the brain is active -- need no Freudian-style decoding, he says. Dreaming is aglorious mental state, to be enjoyed and studied for what it tells us about consciousness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir (The MIT Press). To get started finding Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir (The MIT Press), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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