Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness Studies
See also: - An interdisciplinary journal of consciousness studies publishing work in the sciences and humanities. - A spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. - 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. - Explores a phenomenon of mind-brain interaction which happens during the transition of awakening from sleep into awareness. - Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill. - Community site devoted to accelerating the development of neuroscience through web-based initiatives offers a collection of philosophical essays over consciousness and a forum. - Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia. - The academic institution of the University of Arizona that facilitates interdisciplinary research on consciousness and hosts the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference. - The CEC is a research initiative at CSLI which is devoted to studying explanations of consciousness. The center hosts talks and symposia from a variety of viewpoints exploring the nature of conscious experience. - Analyses the inconsistencies of the materialistic view of man and mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledge about brain and matter. - 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. - 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. - Exploring Mental Landscapes—musings at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy. - A framework for characterizing the cognitive development of entities. - Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise. - Essay by A. Randrup subtitled "Significance of Consciousness in Human Life". - Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan. - An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists. - Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world. - A free online textbook on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness. - A scientific journal publishing empirical research on consciousness. - A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau. - Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch. - By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness". - Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness. - Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans. - 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 physics. - Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren. - Some ideas about how consciousness has changed since pre-history up until the present day, and how it will continue to change. - 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. - Cultures around the globe embrace sound in healing, creation, and exploring consciousness. This essay connects creativity with healing, thus recreating health in the body. - Short online book by Johannes Dressler. - Concepts of existence, consciousness and awareness as well as a solution to the problem of free will. - 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. - Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness. - The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here. - First of the philosopher Ted Honderich's papers on the idea that perceptual consciousness is a kind of existence of things or a world. - Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming. - An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers. - 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. - An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness. - 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. - Brie Gertler reviews this book by John Perry. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. - Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999). - 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 reviews. - Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain. - Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness. - Essay by Titus Rivas subtitled "Subjective awareness and the location of concepts of consciousness". - The relationships between mind, consciousness, and 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. - The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic. - Presents a practical approach to the mystery of 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. - Essya suggestin that observers are put in operative connection or disconnection with the surrounding occurrences by the physiologically modulated motion of unidentified microphysical particles. - Perceptual information and consciousness studies. - Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimental exploration of the functioning of consciousness. - A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory. - A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs. - Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block. - Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject. - Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind. - Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness. - An experiential textbook exposing the interconnectivity and functioning of consciousness and mind. The book unfolds a new way to evaluate your existence, written in everyday language, allowing easily assimilation of its direction. - An open-access magazine in the vein of 2600 publishing methodology and experimentation in neurohacking. Topics include wetware hacking, psychoactive research chemicals, and basic neuroscience and medicine. - Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects. - Paper about animal consciousness, by Esteban Rivas and Titus Rivas, in science and the human-animal Relationship, 1993. - The official website of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, a division of the American Anthropology Association, which convenes academic meetings and publishes scholarly journals. - New theory that takes the mathematical concept of nerve cell interactions as being a form of mathematics that links neural activity to psychology. - 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. - 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. - 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". - 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 radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz. - 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. - 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. - Titus Rivas' essay argues that consciousness must ultimately have an impact on the physical world. - A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
