Body awareness and its disorders.

A Yamadori - 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
A Yamadori
1997psycnet.apa.org
Body awareness and its disorders Page 1 11 Body awareness and its disorders ATSUSHI
YAMADORI Introduction What is consciousness? What kind of mechanism produces this
enigmatic phenomenon? Hughlings Jackson (Jackson 1884) maintained that physiology and
psychology belong to a different dimension and that it is impossible to think of causality
between the two levels. He wrote that states of consciousness are utterly different from nervous
states of the highest centres. The two things occur together; for every mental state there is a�…
Abstract
What is consciousness? What kind of mechanism produces this enigmatic phenomenon? Consciousness depends on an ordering system whose principle we have yet to understand. But the system must be continuous with systems organizing neural activity.
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