Dissecting Consciousness with Four QuestionsAn Interdisciplinary Conference at the
University of Vienna on Science and Art
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We are conscious and unconscious in sleep and wakefulness. Here we think and dream, create and interpret.Is the concept of consciousness a substrate to help us understand these processes in biology, psychology, medicine,philosophy and art?This conference shall address these issues by dissectingconsciousness with four questions about:the neurobiology of the phenomenon with regard to content and expression;its relationship with unconsciousness and self;its contribution to art and creativity, and finally its expression in health and disease.
Vienna Conference on Consciousness 2008
