Gewebetraumen
Gewebetraumen is a term used in speculative neuroscience to describe a hypothesized dream-like state observed in tissue cultures. The coinage combines Gewebe meaning tissue and Träume meaning dreams in German. The concept is not part of established neuroscience and lacks a formal definition in peer-reviewed literature.
In this framework, Gewebetraumen refers to transient patterns of activity in neural or organoid tissue grown
The term is mainly used in theoretical discussions about the boundaries between brain activity and subjective
Critics argue that anthropomorphizing tissue activity risks conflating neural reverberations with conscious experience, and they call
See also: organoids, neural oscillations, in vitro neuroscience, consciousness studies.