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.
http://www.consciousness.home.ro/full-text.htmlAdventure of Consciousness
A spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
http://www.lightendlesslight.org/AdventofCon.htm
Another Linguistic Turn?
Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v4/psyche-4-02-kaye.html
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. T
http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/psyche-b.html
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.
http://www.assc.caltech.edu/
Astro Biological Coenergetics
An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.
http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics
Brain Science
Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
http://info.fysik.dtu.dk/Brainscience/people/rodney.html
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.
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/cns120/videos.html
Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness
Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04274a.htm
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.
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html
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.
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/index-main-page.html
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.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/goswami.htm
Conscious Entities
Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.
http://www.consciousentities.com/index.htm
Consciousness
Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/phil/cons/consciousness.htm
Consciousness & its Existence in Non-Human Animals
Considers whether or not non-human animals should be considered subjective, sentient beings.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/index-67.html
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.
http://www.geocities.com/player2000gi/consciousness.htm
Consciousness and Cognition
Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10538100
Consciousness and Experiential Psychology
Section of the British Psychological Society. Information on the Section, its aims and activities, including its journal "Consciousness & Experiential Psychology".
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/cep/
Consciousness and Microtubules
A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/consciousness_and_microtubules.htm
Consciousness and Neuroscience
Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/crick-koch-cc-97.html
Consciousness and Psychophysics
By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness".
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/E.Eijkman/
Consciousness and the Brain
An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dravita/
Consciousness as an Active Force
Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.
http://www.renresearch.com/consciousness.html
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.
http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/arts/philosophy/cnw/webpage1.htm
Consciousness Research Laboratory
Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.
http://www.psiresearch.org/
Consciousness Rules
Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
http://consciousnessrules.net
Consciousness Studies
Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Consciousness Studies
Listing of useful links and their brief descriptions.
http://www.thwww.com/mrwizard/cnepage1.htm
Consciousness Studies by Peter B. Lloyd
The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/cns.htm
Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World
Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/02/38/cog00000238-00/199801005.html
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 p
http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal
Consciousness: The Detector Approach
Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-61325/ConsciousnessTheDetectorApproach/
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).
http://www.dressler-consciousness.de/
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.
http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-03/conciousness.html
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 a
http://jamaica.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/
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.
http://rimu.orcon.net.nz/con/index.html
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.
http://www.vantagequest.org/trees/door1.htm
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.
http://paradigm-sys.com/cttart/
eGroups: consciousness
A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/consciousness
EmergentMind, Mapping the Frontiers of Consciousness
Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
http://www.emergentmind.org
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.
http://horizons-2000.org/
Francisco Varela's Home Page
Bibliography and online articles by this distinguished Consciousness researcher, phenomenologist, and neuroscientist. In both French and English.
http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/varela/
Gaia Mind
Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
http://www.gaiamind.org
Geometric Theory of Consciousness
An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lka/geometric.htm
Geraint Rees Home Page
The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~grees/
Global Consciousness Project
Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
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.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/index.htm
Idealist philosophy
Full text papers on idealist philosophy, collective consciousness, and spirituality from CIRIP, a center for interdisciplinary research.
http://www.mobilixnet.dk/~mob79301/fulltextpapers.html
INACS Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies
Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.
http://www.inacs.org/
Intuition - Its Powers and Perils
An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.
http://www.davidmyers.org/intuition
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.
http://www.imprint.co.uk/online_index.html
Journal of Consciousness Studies.
Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html
Journal of Mind and Behavior
An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.
http://kramer.ume.maine.edu/~jmb/welcome.html
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.
http://julianjaynessociety.tripod.com/
Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States
Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/consciousness.html
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
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/psychology/staff/velpub.html
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 i
http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting
Metaphors of the Mind
Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.
http://samvak.tripod.com/meta.html
Metaphysics by Default
Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
http://mbdefault.org/
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.
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/
MindWarp
The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/mindwarp.html
Mystery of the Soul
Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
http://www.plotinus.com/
Nanoneurobiology
Interdisciplinary study of consciousness. Provides both theoretical models and experimental verifications. Based on author's contributions in this field.
http://free.hostdepartment.com/d/dankomed/
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.
http://www.neuroquantology.com
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.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/consciousness/
Omnipresent Consciousness and Freedom of Choice
A solution to the problem of free will.
http://members.aol.com/ClJanew/welcome.htm
On the possibility of laws that govern the nature of consciousness
Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
http://dfludd.0catch.com/
Phenomenology and Neurodynamics.
Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.
http://www.geocities.com/t_z_ramsoy/
Presence - The book
Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
http://www.presencethebook.com
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 intellige
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/
Quantum Mind Mailing List
Home page and archive for moderated mailing list devoted to quantum mechanical approaches to consciousness.
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind.html
Quantum Resonance Theory
A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
http://www.xmission.com/~mkeener
Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness
Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
http://www.psy.uva.nl/ResEdu
Science & Philosophy of Consciousness
An empirical approach to consciousness including reviews of philosophical concepts and neuroscience.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lka/conz.htm
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.
http://www.sci-con.org/
Science of Consciousness
A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
http://www.science-of-consciousness.com/
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.
http://www.swcp.com/~hswift/swc/
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 Chalm
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/events/consciousness.cfm
Some Concepts of Consciousness
Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Abridged%20BBS.htm
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.
http://nadia.delicata.net
Studies on Consciousness
Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.
http://www.thymos.com/
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 Consciou
http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/psyche-d.html
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.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/efficaciouspsyche.html
The Cerebral Code
Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
http://williamcalvin.com/bk9
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.
http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/index-17.html
The Light Millennium
Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
http://www.lightmillennium.org/index.html
The Neural Correlate of Consciousness (NCC)
Search for a plausible NCC. Definition, proposals, argumentation for the possibility of its existence.
http://jamaica.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/ncc2.html
The Penrose-Hameroff Model of Consciousness
Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hameroff/
The Presence
An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
http://users.senet.com.au/~presence/SitePages/KeysToEternity/KeyEternityFrames.html
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.
http://www.1729.com/consciousness/
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.
http://www.imprint-academic.demon.co.uk/SPECIAL/tucson.html
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.
http://www.twindatastream.com
Ultimate Computing
Publication by Stuart R Hameroff on biomolecular consciousness and nanotechnology.
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/hameroff/ultimate_comp/introtoultcomp.htm
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.
http://www.unifiedreality.com/
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.
http://www.stevenharris.com/theory/
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".
http://www.uprs.edu/
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.
http://www.brianfelsen.com/
Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained
A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi/
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, Bra
http://www.wasiwaska.org/
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