Sites describing research into Consciousness via various disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, mythology, and mystical exploration....
This page was last updated on August 24th, 2008
This page was last updated on August 24th, 2008
Consciousness Studies (from Philosophy of Mind)
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Gaia Mind
Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
Wasiwaska
Center for studies of the traditional Amazonian hallucinogen ayahuasca, and its effects on consciousness. Includes information about the center, its seminars and presenters, and "ethenogenic" drugs in general. Located in Florianópolis, Brazil.
Geraint Rees Home Page
The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.
The Presence
An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
Consciousness: what can the paranormal teach us about it?
Susan Blackmore argues that the study of the paranormal (even if it exists, which she doubts) is not very relevant to consciousness research. Many or even most alleged paranormal phenomena seem to work unconsciously.
Twin Data Stream Theory of Consciousness
A theory of consciousness and dreaming devised by novelist and playwright Paul Ableman, with purported implications for understanding various psychopathologies.
California Institute of Technology - Video Course: The Neuronal Basis of Consciousness
The course provides a framework for beginning to address these questions from a reductionist point of view.
Another Linguistic Turn?
Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.
The denial of consciousness in non-human animals
Short comment on a paper by Bob Bermond "The Myth of Animal Suffering" by Titus Rivas M.A. Stresses behavioral rather than neuro-anatomical indicators of consciousness in non-human animals.
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Home Page and Virtual Library
Dr. Tart has been well known for many years as a leading researcher on consciousness, particularly altered states, as well as on parapsychology and transpersonal psychology.
Science & Philosophy of Consciousness
An empirical approach to consciousness including reviews of philosophical concepts and neuroscience.
Unified theory of the nervous system & behavior
New theory that takes the mathematical concept of nerve cell interactions as being a form of mathematics that links neural activity to psychology.
Going Inside
Overview of science writer John McCrone's new book "Going Inside - a tour around a single moment of consciousness." Also includes links to articles and sites that provide the lay person a good overview of current thought in cognitive science.
Development of Western Consciousness
Some ideas about how consciousness has changed since pre-history up until the present day, and how it will continue to change.
Geometric Theory of Consciousness
An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.
On the possibility of laws that govern the nature of consciousness
Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
Consciousness and the Brain
An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
Idealist philosophy
Full text papers on idealist philosophy, collective consciousness, and spirituality from CIRIP, a center for interdisciplinary research.
University of Philosophical Research
Based in Los Angeles, and offering a master's degree in consciousness studies with "a curriculum that integrates the Ancient Wisdom traditions with the latest findings in Science and Psychology".
The Archives of PSYCHE-D
PSYCHE-D is a moderated email mailing list for the discussion of theoretical aspects of the nature of consciousness, from a scientific perspective. The discussion is at a high level, and many of the leading scientists and philosophers in the Consciousness
Consciousness in the Natural World Project
Contains details of the project, analytic philosophy papers and bibliographies on the mind and consciousness, and links to philosophy of mind resources. Director: Dr Jose Luis Bermudez.
Consciousness and Neuroscience
Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.
Nanoneurobiology
Interdisciplinary study of consciousness. Provides both theoretical models and experimental verifications. Based on author's contributions in this field.
Science of Consciousness
A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
Julian Jaynes Society
Society for the discussion of Jaynes' bicameral mind theory of consciousness. Includes bibliography (with some abstracts and full-text articles), members-only area, and online application form.
Staged Present - Attending to the Mystical on the Stage of Working Memory
Thesis by Nadia Delicata discussing consciousness, mystical experience, and an experiment concerning the effect of focused attention on working memory.
Unified Reality Theory
Steven Kaufman attempts to demonstrate that the source of reality is a universal consciousness, that we are in no way separable from that source, and so in no way truly separable from each other or any other aspect of reality.
Consciousness & its Existence in Non-Human Animals
Considers whether or not non-human animals should be considered subjective, sentient beings.
Francisco Varela's Home Page
Bibliography and online articles by this distinguished Consciousness researcher, phenomenologist, and neuroscientist. In both French and English.
Theories of Consciousness
Essays on consciousness, as defined by Philip Dorrell: "A system for deciding whether or not to do the thing that you were going to do next". Also, why Roger Penrose is wrong.
Journal of Consciousness Studies.
Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
Phenomenology and Neurodynamics.
Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.
Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained
A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
Center of Scientific Divulgation about Consciousness (CSDC)
Analyses the inconsistencies of the materialistic view of man and mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledge about brain and matter.
Consciousness
Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.
The Light Millennium
Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
Consciousness Research Laboratory
Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.
The Conscious Stream
Information about a book describing "a new model of how the nervous system makes consciousness".
JCS-Online -- Digest of the Key Debates
Home page of moderated email forum devoted to discussion of articles in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. With a digest of some of the most interesting past debates.
PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness
A refereed on-line journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain from the perspectives of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
Mind, Consciousness, and Language
The relationships between mind, consciousness, & language. Webmaster Giorgio Marchetti aims to provide users the opportunity to present their researches in these fields, and to inform about activities and researches carried out worldwide.
Quantum Mind Mailing List
Home page and archive for moderated mailing list devoted to quantum mechanical approaches to consciousness.
View from the Stranger's Gallery
An oratorio attempting to render in music the internal and external influences that inform one's experience of consciousness, and which traces the current debate in cognitive science in a post-dualist world.
Consciousness and Microtubules
A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.
Toward a Science of Consciousness
Abstracts of papers presented at the big Tucson II, Tucson III, and Tucson 2000 "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences, and other recent consciousness conferences. Plus links to press reports on the Tucson conferences.
The Causally Efficacious Psyche
Non-reductive forms of physicalism may be influential, but Titus Rivas tries to show why they should be rejected as incoherent.
Consciousness as an Active Force
Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.
Meaning - the emergence of meaning (semiosis)
From analysis of neurocognitive/affective processes of the Brain the site comes up with a model of meaning that includes Mind being an abstraction from Brain and our species fundamental adaptation has been to light/EMF processing. From this work is ide
Scientific Approaches to Consciousness: Reductionism Debated
Video archive (needs Real-Player) of a May 2000 conference held under the auspices of the National Institute of Mental Health. Features some of the leading scientists and philosophers in the field, including Cristof Koch, J. Allan Hobson, David Chalmers,
NeuroQuantology
A refereed, electronic, open access, interdisciplinary journal of neuroscience and quantum physics. Also brings perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence to bear on the problems of consciousness and mind.
EmergentMind, Mapping the Frontiers of Consciousness
Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
Explorations in Mind, Being and Reality
Being, mind, consciousness... this is the main focus of this multi-faceted site. The site houses essays in which approach is analytical, imaginative and experiential.
Ultimate Computing
Publication by Stuart R Hameroff on biomolecular consciousness and nanotechnology.
eGroups: consciousness
A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
Shawn Mikula's Homepage
A theory on the neurological basis of consciousness.
Consciousness and Experiential Psychology
Section of the British Psychological Society. Information on the Section, its aims and activities, including its journal "Consciousness & Experiential Psychology".
The Neural Correlate of Consciousness (NCC)
Search for a plausible NCC. Definition, proposals, argumentation for the possibility of its existence.
Consciousness: The Unity of Perception, Aspiration, and Emotion and its Control Mechanisms
Short online 'book' (or long article) by Johannes Dressler (English translation of the original German).
Journal of Mind and Behavior
An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.
Archives of PSYCHE-B
PSYCHE-B is a moderated email mailing list for the discussion of biological and experimental psychological approaches to the study of consciousness, as opposed to the more theoretical and philosophical discussions on PSYCHE-D, out of which it grew. The di
Consciousness and Psychophysics
By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness".
Some Concepts of Consciousness
Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.
Honderich on Consciousness as Existence
First of the philosopher Ted Honderich's papers on the idea that perceptual consciousness is a kind of existence of things or a world.
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
The refereed journal provides a forum for new work relating the arts and literature to the exploration of consciousness currently flourishing in many disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and physic
Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World
Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
Intuition - Its Powers and Perils
An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.
Global Consciousness Project
Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
Max Velmans on Consciousness
Gives access to publications by this well known, non-dualist and non-reductionist, consciousness researcher and psychologist. Many of his papers are available online here, plus abstracts of others and blurbs of his 3 books on the subject with links to r
MindWarp
The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
Christof Koch's Real Home Page
A leading researcher into the neuroscience of consciousness. Includes personal information and links to online versions of some of his technical and less technical publications.
Metaphysics by Default
Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
Science within Consciousness
An online newsletter attempting to answer the "hard questions" of consciousness on the premise that consciousness is the ground of all being.
Quantum Resonance Theory
A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
Consciousness: The Detector Approach
Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.
The Cerebral Code
Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
New York University Research Seminar on Consciousness.
Prepared for a seminar conducted by Ned Block and Thomas Nagel, this page provides links to papers by a distinguished roster of contemporary philosophers.
Consciousness & Personality from many perspectives.
Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, NDE's etc.
Adventure of Consciousness
A spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm
In the context of the Holographic Paradigm all things,including consciousness and the transcendental aspects of ultimate reality,are entirely physical.
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
The ASSC promotes research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness.
David Chalmers' Home Page
Chalmers is a leading figure in the philosophy of consciousness, and this page gives access not only to his own writings, but his extensive annotated bibliography of philosophy of mind and his directory of hundreds of online papers on consciousness and re
Studies on Consciousness
Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.
Consciousness and Cognition
Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.
Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness
Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
The Penrose-Hameroff Model of Consciousness
Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
Brain Science
Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
Astro Biological Coenergetics
An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.
Consciousness Studies by Peter B. Lloyd
The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.
Presence - The book
Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
Consciousness Rules
Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
Metaphors of the Mind
Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.
Comments on: Amit Goswami's 'Science within Consciousness'
A critique of Amit Goswami's views,arguing that Goswami's 'monism' is really a dualism in which mind and matter are irreducibly different.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness
Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
INACS Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies
Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.
A test for consciousness
Introduction to consciousness. Contains descriptions of different concepts and also proposes a test for establishing if a physical system is conscious or not.
Doorways in Consciousness
Cultures around the globe embrace sound in healing, creation, and exploring consciousness. This essay connects creativity with healing, thus recreating health in the body.
Omnipresent Consciousness and Freedom of Choice
A solution to the problem of free will.
Mind-Brain.com
Annotated links and papers on consciousness studies, collected by Shawn Mikula.
Conscious Entities
Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.
5th International Conference on Memory, Awareness and Consciousness
Information about a medically oriented conference on consciousness (scheduled for June 1-3, 2001), concerned mainly with anaesthesiology and pharmacological issues in patient care.
Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States
Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
Science And Consciousness Review
An attempt to build a community for disseminating information about events and new scientific findings in the field of consciousness research. Sponsored by some of the leading names in the field.
Mystery of the Soul
Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
Consciousness Studies
Listing of useful links and their brief descriptions.
Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
Center for studies of the traditional Amazonian hallucinogen ayahuasca, and its effects on consciousness. Includes information about the center, its seminars and presenters, and "ethenogenic" drugs in general. Located in Florianópolis, Brazil.
The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.
An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
Susan Blackmore argues that the study of the paranormal (even if it exists, which she doubts) is not very relevant to consciousness research. Many or even most alleged paranormal phenomena seem to work unconsciously.
A theory of consciousness and dreaming devised by novelist and playwright Paul Ableman, with purported implications for understanding various psychopathologies.
The course provides a framework for beginning to address these questions from a reductionist point of view.
Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.
Short comment on a paper by Bob Bermond "The Myth of Animal Suffering" by Titus Rivas M.A. Stresses behavioral rather than neuro-anatomical indicators of consciousness in non-human animals.
Dr. Tart has been well known for many years as a leading researcher on consciousness, particularly altered states, as well as on parapsychology and transpersonal psychology.
An empirical approach to consciousness including reviews of philosophical concepts and neuroscience.
New theory that takes the mathematical concept of nerve cell interactions as being a form of mathematics that links neural activity to psychology.
Overview of science writer John McCrone's new book "Going Inside - a tour around a single moment of consciousness." Also includes links to articles and sites that provide the lay person a good overview of current thought in cognitive science.
Some ideas about how consciousness has changed since pre-history up until the present day, and how it will continue to change.
An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.
Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
Full text papers on idealist philosophy, collective consciousness, and spirituality from CIRIP, a center for interdisciplinary research.
Based in Los Angeles, and offering a master's degree in consciousness studies with "a curriculum that integrates the Ancient Wisdom traditions with the latest findings in Science and Psychology".
PSYCHE-D is a moderated email mailing list for the discussion of theoretical aspects of the nature of consciousness, from a scientific perspective. The discussion is at a high level, and many of the leading scientists and philosophers in the Consciousness
Contains details of the project, analytic philosophy papers and bibliographies on the mind and consciousness, and links to philosophy of mind resources. Director: Dr Jose Luis Bermudez.
Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.
Interdisciplinary study of consciousness. Provides both theoretical models and experimental verifications. Based on author's contributions in this field.
A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
Society for the discussion of Jaynes' bicameral mind theory of consciousness. Includes bibliography (with some abstracts and full-text articles), members-only area, and online application form.
Thesis by Nadia Delicata discussing consciousness, mystical experience, and an experiment concerning the effect of focused attention on working memory.
Steven Kaufman attempts to demonstrate that the source of reality is a universal consciousness, that we are in no way separable from that source, and so in no way truly separable from each other or any other aspect of reality.
Considers whether or not non-human animals should be considered subjective, sentient beings.
Bibliography and online articles by this distinguished Consciousness researcher, phenomenologist, and neuroscientist. In both French and English.
Essays on consciousness, as defined by Philip Dorrell: "A system for deciding whether or not to do the thing that you were going to do next". Also, why Roger Penrose is wrong.
Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.
A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
Analyses the inconsistencies of the materialistic view of man and mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledge about brain and matter.
Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.
Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.
Information about a book describing "a new model of how the nervous system makes consciousness".
Home page of moderated email forum devoted to discussion of articles in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. With a digest of some of the most interesting past debates.
A refereed on-line journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain from the perspectives of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
The relationships between mind, consciousness, & language. Webmaster Giorgio Marchetti aims to provide users the opportunity to present their researches in these fields, and to inform about activities and researches carried out worldwide.
Home page and archive for moderated mailing list devoted to quantum mechanical approaches to consciousness.
An oratorio attempting to render in music the internal and external influences that inform one's experience of consciousness, and which traces the current debate in cognitive science in a post-dualist world.
A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.
Abstracts of papers presented at the big Tucson II, Tucson III, and Tucson 2000 "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences, and other recent consciousness conferences. Plus links to press reports on the Tucson conferences.
Non-reductive forms of physicalism may be influential, but Titus Rivas tries to show why they should be rejected as incoherent.
Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.
From analysis of neurocognitive/affective processes of the Brain the site comes up with a model of meaning that includes Mind being an abstraction from Brain and our species fundamental adaptation has been to light/EMF processing. From this work is ide
Video archive (needs Real-Player) of a May 2000 conference held under the auspices of the National Institute of Mental Health. Features some of the leading scientists and philosophers in the field, including Cristof Koch, J. Allan Hobson, David Chalmers,
A refereed, electronic, open access, interdisciplinary journal of neuroscience and quantum physics. Also brings perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence to bear on the problems of consciousness and mind.
Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
Being, mind, consciousness... this is the main focus of this multi-faceted site. The site houses essays in which approach is analytical, imaginative and experiential.
Publication by Stuart R Hameroff on biomolecular consciousness and nanotechnology.
A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
A theory on the neurological basis of consciousness.
Section of the British Psychological Society. Information on the Section, its aims and activities, including its journal "Consciousness & Experiential Psychology".
Search for a plausible NCC. Definition, proposals, argumentation for the possibility of its existence.
Short online 'book' (or long article) by Johannes Dressler (English translation of the original German).
An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.
PSYCHE-B is a moderated email mailing list for the discussion of biological and experimental psychological approaches to the study of consciousness, as opposed to the more theoretical and philosophical discussions on PSYCHE-D, out of which it grew. The di
By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness".
Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.
First of the philosopher Ted Honderich's papers on the idea that perceptual consciousness is a kind of existence of things or a world.
The refereed journal provides a forum for new work relating the arts and literature to the exploration of consciousness currently flourishing in many disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and physic
Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.
Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
Gives access to publications by this well known, non-dualist and non-reductionist, consciousness researcher and psychologist. Many of his papers are available online here, plus abstracts of others and blurbs of his 3 books on the subject with links to r
The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
A leading researcher into the neuroscience of consciousness. Includes personal information and links to online versions of some of his technical and less technical publications.
Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
An online newsletter attempting to answer the "hard questions" of consciousness on the premise that consciousness is the ground of all being.
A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.
Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
Prepared for a seminar conducted by Ned Block and Thomas Nagel, this page provides links to papers by a distinguished roster of contemporary philosophers.
Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, NDE's etc.
A spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
In the context of the Holographic Paradigm all things,including consciousness and the transcendental aspects of ultimate reality,are entirely physical.
The ASSC promotes research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness.
Chalmers is a leading figure in the philosophy of consciousness, and this page gives access not only to his own writings, but his extensive annotated bibliography of philosophy of mind and his directory of hundreds of online papers on consciousness and re
Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.
Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.
Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.
The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.
Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.
A critique of Amit Goswami's views,arguing that Goswami's 'monism' is really a dualism in which mind and matter are irreducibly different.
Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.
Introduction to consciousness. Contains descriptions of different concepts and also proposes a test for establishing if a physical system is conscious or not.
Cultures around the globe embrace sound in healing, creation, and exploring consciousness. This essay connects creativity with healing, thus recreating health in the body.
A solution to the problem of free will.
Annotated links and papers on consciousness studies, collected by Shawn Mikula.
Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.
Information about a medically oriented conference on consciousness (scheduled for June 1-3, 2001), concerned mainly with anaesthesiology and pharmacological issues in patient care.
Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
An attempt to build a community for disseminating information about events and new scientific findings in the field of consciousness research. Sponsored by some of the leading names in the field.
Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
Listing of useful links and their brief descriptions.
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