Memory, Consciousness and Temporality Book

	Aknowledgments	vii
	Preface	ix
Chapter 1.	The Problem of the Past and the Paradox of the Trace	1
1.	Knowing and remembering: a phenomenological description	1
2.	The paradox of the trace	5
3.	Memory and representation	13
Chapter 2.	The Homunculus Fallacy	27
1.	Memory and control systems	27
2.	The homunculus fallacy	32
3.	The foundations of consciousness	43
a)	The problem of the foundations of consciousness	43
b)	The neurobiological anthropomorphization of the unconscious	45
c)	Psychoanalytic anthropomorphization of the unconscious	57
d)	Functionalist anthropomorphization of the unconscious	61
4.	Science and materialism	71
5.	Conclusions	83
Chapter 3.	Varieties of Consciousness	87
1.	Consciousness cannot but be defined as consciousness of	87
2.	Consciousness is not passivity	89
3.	Becoming conscious means becoming conscious of something in a certain way	92
4.	Varieties of consciousness	94
5.	Where does the originality of the modes of consciousness come from?	97
6.	Memory as a particular type of consciousness	101
Chapter 4.	Temporality	105
1.	Phenomenology of temporality	105
a)	The past	106
b)	The present	111
c)	The future	114
2.	Ontology of temporality	117
a)	The before-after relationship	117
Chapter 5.	Knowing and Remembering	125
3.	Ontology of knowledge	125
4.	Ontology of memory	138
Chapter 6.	Memory and Consciousness	149
1.	Is a scientific theory of consciousness possible?	149
2.	A hypothesis on the relationship between memory and consciousness	153
3.	Towards experimental phenomenology	169
Chapter 7.	Consciousness and Reality	181
1.	Amnesia	181
2.	Confabulation	191
3.	Consciousness and existence	207
	References	211
	Index	221