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Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind
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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. In this groundbreaking work, he provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, free riders, irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or to create meaning, even when were sleeping. Written with remarkable insight, Dreaming Souls offers a fascinating new way of apprehending one of the oldest mysteries of mental life.

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title	:	Dreaming Souls : Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind Philosophy of Mind Series
author	:	Flanagan, Owen J.
publisher	:	Oxford University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0195126874
print isbn13	:	9780195126877
ebook isbn13	:	9780585341477
language	:	English
subject	Dreams, Dream interpretation, Philosophy of mind.
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	BF1091.F58 2000eb
ddc	:	154.6/3
subject	:	Dreams, Dream interpretation, Philosophy of mind.

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Dreaming Souls

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PHILOSOPHY OF MIND SERIES
SeriesEditor
Owen Flanagan, Duke University

SELF EXPRESSIONS
Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
Owen Flanagan

THE CONSCIOUS MIND
In Search of a Fundamental Theory
David J. Chalmers

DECONSTRUCTING THE MIND
Stephen P. Stich

THE HUMAN ANIMAL
Personal Identity Without Psychology
Eric Olson

MINDS AND BODIES
Philosophers and Their Ideas
Colin McGinn

WHAT'S WITHIN?
Nativism Reconsidered
Fiona Cowie

Other Books by Owen Flanagan

THE SCIENCE OF THE MIND

IDENTITY, CHARACTER, AND MORALITY
(ed. with Amelie Rorty)

VARIETIES OF MORAL PERSONALITY: ETHICS AND
PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM

CONSCIOUSNESS RECONSIDERED

THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
(ed. with Ned Block and Guven Guzeldere)

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Dreaming Souls

Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind

Owen Flanagan

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Flanagan, Owen J.
Dreaming souls : sleep, dreams, and the evolution
of the conscious mind / by Owen Flanagan
p. cm. (Philosophy of mind series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-512687-4
1. Dreams. 2. Dream interpretation. 3. Philosophy of mind.
I. Title. II. Series.
BF1091.F58 2000
154.6'3 - DC21

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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

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To
NancyZinsserWalworth,
EdwardH. Walworth,
andtheWalworthClan
Withlove, respect, andgratitude

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: ''To Sleep: Perchance to Dream"

1. Heart Throbs

2. The Dreaming Mind

3. Sleepy Heads

4. Dreams: The Spandrels of Sleep

5. Self-Expression in Dreams

127

6. Philosophical Perplexities

163

Epilogue: Here Comes the Sun

185

Selected Bibliography

197

Index

205

Page ix

Acknowledgments

During a memorable summer vacation in 1977 near Bar Harbor on the coast of Maine, I read Freud's TheInterpretationofDreams carefully. Time passed. A decade. And then, on a snowy night in 1988, I gobbled up Allan Hobson's first book on dreams, TheDreamingBrain, after discovering it at Wordsworth in Harvard Square. I remembered that night that my friend Paul Churchland had written that almost nothing was known about sleep and dreams, and I was pleased to think I had found an illuminating, instructive, and empirically well-grounded theory in Hobson's booknow drenched in melted snow, due to my slow, absorbed, page-turning walk from Harvard to Kendall Square, near MIT. By the next day I was back to teaching, family, and preparing for coaching the upcoming Little League baseball season. But by then thinking about dreams had secured its own room in my head, and I started hesitantly to talk and wonder aloud about dreams in my philosophy of mind courses at Wellesley College and Brandeis University.

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