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Consciousness and the Brain
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An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
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The Penrose-Hameroff Model of Consciousness
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Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
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Mystery of the Soul
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Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
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Gaia Mind
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Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
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Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness
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Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
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Science within Consciousness
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An online newsletter attempting to answer the "hard questions" of consciousness on the premise that consciousness is the ground of all being.
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Consciousness as an Active Force
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Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.
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Comments on: Amit Goswami's 'Science within Consciousness'
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A critique of Amit Goswami's views,arguing that Goswami's 'monism' is really a dualism in which mind and matter are irreducibly different.
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Quantum Resonance Theory
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A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
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Doorways in Consciousness
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Cultures around the globe embrace sound in healing, creation, and exploring consciousness. This essay connects creativity with healing, thus recreating health in the body.
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Science of Consciousness
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A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
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MindWarp
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The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
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Journal of Consciousness Studies.
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Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
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Theories of Consciousness
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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.
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Development of Western Consciousness
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Some ideas about how consciousness has changed since pre-history up until the present day, and how it will continue to change.
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Consciousness and Microtubules
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A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.
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Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
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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.
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Metaphysics by Default
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Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
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INACS Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies
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Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.
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University of Philosophical Research
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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".
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Explorations in Mind, Being and Reality
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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.
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JCS-Online -- Digest of the Key Debates
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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.
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Consciousness in the Natural World Project
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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.
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Omnipresent Consciousness and Freedom of Choice
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A solution to the problem of free will.
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The Archives of PSYCHE-D
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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 Studies movement have taken part. Archives go back to April 1993.
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Archives of PSYCHE-B
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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 discussion is at a high level, and many of the leading scientists and philosophers in the Consciousness Studies movement have taken part. Archives go back to October 1996.
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Scientific Approaches to Consciousness: Reductionism Debated
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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, and Patricia Churchland.
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Twin Data Stream Theory of Consciousness
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A theory of consciousness and dreaming devised by novelist and playwright Paul Ableman, with purported implications for understanding various psychopathologies.
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Meaning - the emergence of meaning (semiosis)
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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 identified a template used to create metaphors.
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Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States
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Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
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The Light Millennium
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Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
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Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained
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A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
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View from the Stranger's Gallery
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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.
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The Presence
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An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
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New York University Research Seminar on Consciousness.
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Prepared for a seminar conducted by Ned Block and Thomas Nagel, this page provides links to papers by a distinguished roster of contemporary philosophers.
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eGroups: consciousness
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A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
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Consciousness and Psychophysics
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By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness".
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Toward a Science of Consciousness
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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.
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Metaphors of the Mind
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Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.
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Consciousness: what can the paranormal teach us about it?
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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.
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Consciousness
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Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.
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Mind, Consciousness, and Language
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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.
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Consciousness: The Detector Approach
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Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.
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On the possibility of laws that govern the nature of consciousness
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Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
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Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World
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Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
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Unified Reality Theory
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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.
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The denial of consciousness in non-human animals
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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.
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Geraint Rees Home Page
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The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.
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EmergentMind, Mapping the Frontiers of Consciousness
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Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
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Phenomenology and Neurodynamics.
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Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.
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Geometric Theory of Consciousness
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An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.
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Adventure of Consciousness
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A spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
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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.
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Consciousness Rules
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Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
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Consciousness and Cognition
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Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.
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Max Velmans on Consciousness
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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.
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Intuition - Its Powers and Perils
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An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.
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Presence - The book
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Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
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The Cerebral Code
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Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
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The Causally Efficacious Psyche
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Non-reductive forms of physicalism may be influential, but Titus Rivas tries to show why they should be rejected as incoherent.
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Staged Present - Attending to the Mystical on the Stage of Working Memory
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Thesis by Nadia Delicata discussing consciousness, mystical experience, and an experiment concerning the effect of focused attention on working memory.
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Wasiwaska
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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.
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Another Linguistic Turn?
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Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.
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Consciousness & Personality from many perspectives.
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Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, NDE's etc.
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Nanoneurobiology
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Interdisciplinary study of consciousness. Provides both theoretical models and experimental verifications. Based on author's contributions in this field.
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Science & Philosophy of Consciousness
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An empirical approach to consciousness including reviews of philosophical concepts and neuroscience.
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Consciousness & its Existence in Non-Human Animals
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Considers whether or not non-human animals should be considered subjective, sentient beings.
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Conscious Entities
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Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.
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Consciousness Studies by Peter B. Lloyd
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The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.
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Unified theory of the nervous system & behavior
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New theory that takes the mathematical concept of nerve cell interactions as being a form of mathematics that links neural activity to psychology.
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Some Concepts of Consciousness
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Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.
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Science And Consciousness Review
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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.
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Christof Koch's Real Home Page
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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.
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Consciousness: The Unity of Perception, Aspiration, and Emotion and its Control Mechanisms
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Short online 'book' (or long article) by Johannes Dressler (English translation of the original German).
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Consciousness and Experiential Psychology
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Section of the British Psychological Society. Information on the Section, its aims and activities, including its journal "Consciousness & Experiential Psychology".
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NeuroQuantology
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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.
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Center of Scientific Divulgation about Consciousness (CSDC)
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Analyses the inconsistencies of the materialistic view of man and mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledge about brain and matter.
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