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Volume 14, issue 2

Reflection

One-sided consciousness?

MAGDALENA ŚWITOŃ1
1. Instytut Psychiatrii i Neurologii
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii 2005; 14 (2): 165-167
Keywords: mental illness, consciousness, one-sided surface

Abstract

Background. An attempt was made in the paper to answer the question whether mental illness, drug- or alcohol-induced intoxication, sleep, and hypnosis have anything in common. It was hypothesized that these may be similar states of the same consciousness.

Conclusions. In these states we deal with a more general case of brain activity that cannot be described, because appropriate tools are lacking. The latter can be sought for on the grounds of physics and mathematics.

Address for correspondence:
Redakcja Postępów Psychiatrii i Neurologii, Instytut Psychiatrii i Neurologii,
Al. Sobieskiego 9, 02-957 Warszawa