The Secret of Consciousness

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Where do "thoughts that come from nowhere" actually come from? What gives dreams their surreal power? Ableman posits a crucial relationship between language and memory and thus between language and self-awareness. Most startlingly he maintains that the human "person" is essentially the language component of a large-brained animal. Ableman has tested his theory against his own and other people's experiences, through wide reading and a sound knowledge of the malfunctioning mind as manifested in schizophrenia, sleepwalking, autism, "out-of-body" experiences and nightmares. His revolutionary claims constitute an exciting and persuasive theory of mind which more orthodox science could -- and should -- test.