How Does the New Protoconsciousness Hypothesis Fit with Your Own Concept of the Cognitive Unconscious?

Abstract

Comments on the articles by J. Allan Hobson (see record [rid]2014-54589-002[/rid]), (see record [rid]2014-54589-003[/rid]) & (see record [rid]2014-54589-004[/rid]). Philosophers who try to define consciousness often contrast it to a state of dreamless sleep. So I think that Allan Hobson is right to think that understanding sleep, and dreams, may be a key to that Holy Grail of psychological research - understanding consciousness itself, including its biological substrates. Hobson argues that dreaming is not an unconscious process but rather an altered state of consciousness which is poorly remembered - if it is remembered at all - in normal waking life. I agree, but it is one thing for dreaming to result from an unconscious process and another thing for dreaming to be an unconscious mental state. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)