'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian
'A remarkable book. It changes everything' - Brian Eno
How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, the man who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming appears to have made a breakthrough.
The very idea that a solution is at hand may seem outrageous. Isn't consciousness intangible, beyond the reach of science? Yet Mark Solms shows how misguided fears and suppositions have concealed its true nature. Stick to the medical facts, pay close attention to the eerie testimony of hundreds of neurosurgery patients, and a way past our obstacles reveals itself.
Join Solms on a voyage into the extraordinary realms beyond. More than just a philosophical argument, The Hidden Spring will forever alter how you understand your own experience. There is a secret buried in the brain's ancient foundations: bring it into the light and we fathom all the depths of our being.
'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian
'A remarkable book. It changes everything' - Brian Eno
How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, the man who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming appears to have made a breakthrough.
The very idea that a solution is at hand may seem outrageous. Isn't consciousness intangible, beyond the reach of science? Yet Mark Solms shows how misguided fears and suppositions have concealed its true nature. Stick to the medical facts, pay close attention to the eerie testimony of hundreds of neurosurgery patients, and a way past our obstacles reveals itself.
Join Solms on a voyage into the extraordinary realms beyond. More than just a philosophical argument, The Hidden Spring will forever alter how you understand your own experience. There is a secret buried in the brain's ancient foundations: bring it into the light and we fathom all the depths of our being.
A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams
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, honorary lecturer in neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, and an honorary fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.
'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the
solution proposed by Mark Solms in The Hidden Spring ...
fascinating, wide-ranging and heartfelt' - Oliver Burkeman
'Rather extraordinary ... The thing about these rebel types is
that, so much of the time, they're the ones most capable of making
the wildest leaps. Not the patient, incremental advances of
everyday science, but the world-historical, paradigm-shifting
transformations in global consciousness. Or, in Solms' case, a new
theory of consciousness itself ... One of the worthiest efforts to
come out of neuroscience in recent memory' - Jason Kehe
'Truly pioneering. This unification is clearly the direction for
the future' - Eric Kandel, Nobel laureate and author
'A remarkable book. It changes everything' - Brian Eno
'To say this work is encyclopaedic is to diminish its poetic,
psychological and theoretical achievement. This is required
reading' - Susie Orbach, author
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