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Dreaming is the cognitive state uniquely experienced by humans and integral to our creativity, the survival characteristic that allows for the rapid change and innovation that defines our species and provides the basis for our art, philosophy, science, and humanity. Yet there is little empiric or scientific evidence supporting the generally accepted dream-based theories of neuroconsciousness. "Dream Science" examines the cognitive science of dreaming and offers an evidence-based view of the phenomenon. Today, such evidence-based breakthroughs in the field of dream
science are altering our understanding of consciousness. Different
forms of dreaming consciousness occur throughout sleep, and
dreamlike states extend into wake. Each dream state is developed on
a framework of memories, emotions, representational images, and
electrophysiology, amenable to studies utilizing emerging and
evolving technology. "Dream Science" discusses basic insights into
the scientific study of dreaming, including the limits to
traditional Freudian-based dream theory and the more modern
evidence-based science. It also includes coverage of the processes
of memory and parasomnias, the sleep-disturbance diagnoses related
to dreaming. This comprehensive book is a scientific exploration of
the mind-brain interface and a look into the future of dream
science.
The Limits of Dream focuses on what we currently know of the human
central nervous system (CNS), examining the basic sciences of
neurochemisty, neuroanatomy, and CNS electrophysiology as these
sciences apply to dream, then reaching beyond basic science to
examine the cognitive science of dreaming including the processes
of memory, the perceptual interface, and visual imagery. Building
on what is known of intrapersonal CNS processing, the book steps
outside the physical body to explore artificially created dreams
and their use in filmmaking, art and story, as well as the role of
dreaming in creative process and creative madness. The limits of
our scientific knowledge of dream frame this window that can be
used to explore the border between body and mind. What is known
scientifically of the cognitive process of dreaming will lead the
neuroscientist, the student of cognitive science, and the general
reader down different paths than expected into an exploration of
the fuzzy and complex horizon between mind and brain.
Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These "dreams" are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity. Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition.
This issue reviews the current status of scientific dream study and offers the most up-to-date reviews on topics such as dream recall (including variables affecting dream recall, and the psychopathology of altered dream recall), dream content (including the assessment of dream content and variables affecting dream content), dreaming and cognitive functions (dreaming and emotional processing, personality and psychopathology, and learning and memory), disordered dreaming (such as nightmares in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, dreaming epiphenomena of narcolepsy, and parasomnias), medications altering dreaming, and the role of dreams in psychotherapy.? Because sleep and dreams are inextricably linked, it is important for every sleep specialist to have an understanding of the current scientific understanding of normal and disordered dreaming.
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