The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness [Hardcover]

A revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life. [R]emarkably clear, accommodating and exciting to read& One of the worthiest efforts to come out of neuroscience in recent memory. Nobody bewitched by these mysteries [of consciousness] can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms&Fascinating, wide-ranging and heartfelt. Intriguing&There is plenty to provoke and fascinate along the way. This is truly a remarkable book. It changes everything. A remarkably bold fusion of ideas from psychoanalysis, psychology, and the frontiers of theoretical neuroscience that takes aim at the biggest question there is. Solms will challenge your most basic beliefs. Solmss efforts&have been truly pioneering. This unification is clearly the direction for the future. This treatment of consciousness and artificial sentience should be taken very seriously. Solmss vital work has never ignored the lived, felt experience of human beings. His ideas look a lot like the future to me. To say this work is encyclopedic is to diminish its poetic, psychological and theoretical achievement. This is required reading. At last the emperor has found some clothes! For decades, consciousness has been perceived as an epiphenomenon, little more than an illusion that can't really make things happen. Solms takes a thrilling new approach to the problem, grounded in modern neurobiology but finding meaning in older ideas going back to Freud. This is an exciting book. US