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- 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.
www.maacc.org
- 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 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.
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.
www.assc.caltech.edu
- Astro Biological Coenergetics - An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.
www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics
- Brain Science - Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
info.fysik.dtu.dk/Brainscience/rodney.html
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness - Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/04274a.htm
- 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.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/goswami.htm
- Consciousness - Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.
www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/phil/cons/consciousness.htm
- Consciousness and Cognition - Home page for the print journal giving access to abstracts of articles, submission and subscription information etc.
www.apnet.com/www/journal/cc.htm
- Consciousness and Microtubules - A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/consciousness_and_microtubules.htm
- Consciousness and Neuroscience - Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.
artsci.wustl.edu/~jprinz/consciousness/crick-koch-cc-97.html
- Consciousness and Psychophysics - By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness".
web.inter.nl.net/hcc/E.Eijkman
- Consciousness and the Brain - An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
home.earthlink.net/~dravita
- Consciousness as an Active Force - Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.
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.
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.
www.psiresearch.org
- Consciousness Studies - Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
www.consciousness.arizona.edu
- Consciousness Website - Explores consciousness using the tree of life as a map, links to mythology, and gives an outline of scientific research into consciousness.
www.esotericlinks.com/taoframeset.html
- Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World - Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/02/38/cog00000238-00/199801005.html
- 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.
www.netdot.com/hermital
- Consciousness: The Detector Approach - Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.
home.swipnet.se/~w-61325/ConsciousnessTheDetectorApproach
- 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.
www.csicop.org/si/2001-03/conciousness.html
- 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.
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.
www.vantagequest.org/trees/door1.htm
- Douglas F. Watt - Articles and reviews about the scientific basis of emotion and consciousness, by the distinguised neuroscientist.
drwatt.freeyellow.com
- 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.
paradigm-sys.com/cttart
- eGroups: consciousness - A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
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.
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.
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.
www.ccr.jussieu.fr/varela
- Gaia Mind - Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
www.gaiamind.org
- Geometric Theory of Consciousness - An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.
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.
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~grees
- 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.
www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/index.html
- 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.
www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/index.htm
- Imagination, Cognition and Personality - Print journal devoted to the psychological study of imagery, imagination and related topics.
www.baywood.com/search/PreviewJournal.asp?qsRecord=4
- INACS Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies - Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, lucid dreaming, etc.
www.inacs.org
- 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.
www.imprint.co.uk/online_index.html
- Journal of Consciousness Studies. - Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html
- Journal of Mind and Behavior - An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.
kramer.ume.maine.edu/~jmb/welcome.html
- Journey into Consciousness - Research in the fields of near-death experiences and related paranormal phenomena.
home.earthlink.net/~drdianne
- 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.
julianjaynessociety.tripod.com
- Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States - Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/consciousness.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 is identified a template used to create metaphors.
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.
samvak.tripod.com/meta.html
- Metaphysics by Default - Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
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.
www.mind-consciousness-language.com
- Mindgate - Site outlining a personal theory about the nature of mind and consciousness, and selling a book about it.
www.mindgatethebook.com
- MindWarp - The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/mindwarp.html
- Mystery of the Soul - Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
www.plotinus.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.
www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/consciousness
- Omnipresent Consciousness and Freedom of Choice - A solution to the problem of free will.
members.aol.com/ClJanew/welcome.htm
- On the possibility of laws that govern the nature of consciousness - Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
dfludd.0catch.com
- Phenomenology and Neurodynamics. - Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.
www.geocities.com/t_z_ramsoy
- 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.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au
- Quantum Mind Mailing List - Home page and archive for moderated mailing list devoted to quantum mechanical approaches to consciousness.
www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind.html
- Quantum Resonance Theory - A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
www.xmission.com/~mkeener
- Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness - Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
www.psy.uva.nl/ResEdu
- 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.
psych.pomona.edu/scr/index.html
- Science of Consciousness - A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
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.
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 Chalmers, and Patricia Churchland.
www.nimh.nih.gov/events/consciousness.cfm
- Shawn Mikula's Homepage - A theory on the neurological basis of consciousness.
mind-brain.com
- Staged Present - Attending to the Mystical on the Stage of Working Memory - Thesis by Nadia Delicata disscussing consciousness, mystical experience, and an experiment concerning the effect of focused attention on working memory.
www.web-dezyne.com/nadya
- Studies on Consciousness - Devoted to the study of consciousness, mind and cognition, with regular reviews and essays, and a bibliography on the subject.
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 Consciousness Studies movement have taken part. Archives go back to April 1993.
listserv.uh.edu/archives/psyche-d.html
- The Conscious Stream - Information about a book describing "a new model of how the nervous system makes consciousness".
community.gorge.net/neuro
- 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.
members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/index-17.html
- The function of the brain - A wave model of the function of the brain is proposed in which the cumulative effect of electromagnetic activity in the neuron network plays a part in the operation of the brain.
members.aol.com/vrmlewis/harmony/brain.htm
- The Light Millennium - Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
www.lightmillennium.org/index.html
- The Penrose-Hameroff Model of Consciousness - Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
www.u.arizona.edu/~hameroff
- The Presence - An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
users.senet.com.au/~presence/SitePages/KeysToEternity/KeyEternityFrames.html
- The Transformation Project - Research project of Dr. Dana Gaynor, exploring the nature of consciousness, reality and psychospiritual transformation.
www.thetransformationproject.com
- 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.
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.
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.
www.twindatastream.com
- 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.
www.unifiedreality.com
- 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".
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.
www.brianfelsen.com
- Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained - A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
www.foothill.net/~jerryi
- What Are Thoughts Made Of? - An introduction to the mystery of consciousness.
www.theunityofknowledge.org/what_are_thoughts_made_of/title_page.htm
- Global Consciousness Project - Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
noosphere.princeton.edu
- Online Papers on Consciousness - David Chalmers' directory of hundreds of online papers on consciousness and related topics.
www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online.html
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