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Ever Present: Attention and Alertness in the Unawake
Author(s) -
McDaniel Raymond
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1111/anoc.12010
Subject(s) - alertness , consciousness , psychology , subject (documents) , set (abstract data type) , cognitive psychology , equivalence (formal languages) , subject matter , sleep (system call) , psychiatry , neuroscience , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , pedagogy , library science , curriculum , programming language , operating system
Unlike patients diagnosed with traditional sleep disorders, this subject displays persistent equivalence of consciousness even while asleep. This poses a set of epistemic challenges to ideas of what constitutes sleep, self, and awareness.