| #1487729 in Books | 2001-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.80 x.70 x8.90l,.75 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Focus on the physiological|By Leslie Halpern|"Dreaming Souls" clearly lays out an anti-Freudian way of viewing dream content. Flanagan's focus on dreams as "free-riders" that coincidentally join us each night when we sleep is a fascinating way to interpret the latest in sleep science.
He offers his Laws of Dream Science to help explain the bizarre nature of our dr|.com |It is a long-held notion of evolutionary theory that every aspect of behavior has an adaptive purpose, making the organism that exhibits it more fit for survival. That view hits a wall when it is brought to bear on dreaming, an act that seems to have no d
What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. And in Dreaming Souls he provides both an accessible survey of the latest research ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind (Philosophy of Mind) | Owen Flanagan. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
