--- abstract: 'The puzzle of how an "objectively real" brain might produce "subjectively real" experiences dissolves if experiences can be shown to be nothing more than (ontologically identical to) states of the brain. However, this form of reductionism cannot be made to work. Science may discover the neural causes and correlates of consciousness, but causation and correlation are very different to ontological identity. Solms suggests a solution to this puzzle which breaks down the classical "objective/subjective" distinction, and his proposals, informed by psychodynamic theory, are very close to ones I have developed in the effort to construct a phenomenologically-sensitive cognitive science. This involves a nonreductionist analysis of first- and third-person access to mental life, and a dual-aspect theory in which "subjective" conscious experiences and "objective" brain states are treated as two ways of viewing one, unfolding, mental life or thing-itself.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: 'Solms,M. What is consciousness? Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association' confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Velmans given: Max. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997 date_type: published datestamp: 1999-07-05 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/08/15 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 815 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/815/1/SOLMS.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'consciousness, subjectivity, objectivity, reductionism, third-person, first-person, dual-aspect, Freud, complementarity, brain' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:18 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 3 pagerange: 759-764 pubdom: FALSE publication: 'Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45(3), 681-703.' publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:34:40 subjects: - cog-psy - neuro-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Commentary on "What is consciousness?" by Mark Solms. type: journalp userid: 156 volume: 45