It is important for the future of our discipline to relate psychoanalysis to the cognitive/neurosciences and the contemporary philosophy of mind. Mark Solms's target article, however, while manifestly championing these goals suggests a program that if implemented would drive us further into isolation from the scientific/academic world. He states that the question asked by neuroscientists, “‘How exactly do neurobiological processes in the brain cause consciousness?’ embodies a fundamentally flawed conception of the nature of consciousness.” And since this conception, flawed in Solms's view, underlies much of current cognitive and brain research, he implies that psychoanalysts need not be concerned that “our discipline is very much out of step with contemporary research.” I disagree strongly. I will show why, by identifying his failed arguments and the erroneous conclusions to which they lead.