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Symposium on the Physiopathology of the States of Consciousness pp 166–186Cite as

Anatomical Points of View on the Alleged Morphological Basis of Consciousness

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Taking for granted, as I think is permissible, that in the living world structure and function are closely interrelated and interdependent, and assuming further that our mental processes are in some way, although not yet understood, related to the function of the nervous system, it is indeed appropriate that a symposium on the physiopathology of the states of consciousness includes some reference to brain structure.

“The psychologist and psychiatrist must challenge the neurophysiologist with the necessity of undertaking to explain not ‘Consciousness’ but the multiple phenomenology of varied conscious states.”

“... consciousness of something exists; but consciousness is merely an abstraction.”

Kubie, 1954 (p. 446 and 447).

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Brodal, A. (1964). Anatomical Points of View on the Alleged Morphological Basis of Consciousness. In: Symposium on the Physiopathology of the States of Consciousness. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4702-3_2

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