Directory of Consciousness Studies Resources

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Consciousness studies encompasses the academic study of consciousness from scientific, philosophical, and medical perspectives. Additionally, humanistic and spiritual accounts help describe the content of conscious experience.

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Resources in This Category

• A Discussion about the Mind and Consciousness

  http://cnx.org/content/m52495/latest/
  This article reviews various information related to the concepts of consciousness, emotion and reason.

• Adventure of Consciousness

  http://www.lightendlesslight.org/AdventofCon.htm
  A spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

  http://www.theassc.org/
  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.

• Auditory Binding Experiment

  http://auditorybinding.org/
  Explores a phenomenon of mind-brain interaction which happens during the transition of awakening from sleep into awareness.

• BrainMeta.com

  http://brainmeta.com/
  Community site devoted to accelerating the development of neuroscience through web-based initiatives offers a collection of philosophical essays over consciousness and a forum.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04274a.htm
  Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.

• Center for Consciousness Studies

  http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
  The academic institution of the University of Arizona that facilitates interdisciplinary research on consciousness and hosts the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference.

• Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, Stanford University

  http://csli-cec.stanford.edu/
  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.

• Center of Scientific Divulgation about Consciousness (CSDC)

  http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html
  Analyses the inconsistencies of the materialistic view of man and mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledge about brain and matter.

• Charles T. Tart Home Page and Consciousness Library Online

  http://www.paradigm-sys.com/
  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.

• Cognitive Philosophy

  http://cognitivephilosophy.net/
  Exploring Mental Landscapes—musings at the intersection of cognitive science and philosophy.

• Conscious Entities

  http://www.consciousentities.com/
  Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.

• Conscious Experience, Existence and Behaviour

  http://cogprints.org/4368/1/experienceexistence.html
  Essay by A. Randrup subtitled "Significance of Consciousness in Human Life".

• Consciousness

  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/phil/cons/consciousness.htm
  Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.

• Consciousness & The Brain

  http://www.consciousness-brain.org/
  An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

• Consciousness and Cognition

  http://www.journals.elsevier.com/consciousness-and-cognition
  A scientific journal publishing empirical research on consciousness.

• Consciousness and Microtubules

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/consciousness_and_microtubules.htm
  A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.

• Consciousness as an Active Force

  http://www.renresearch.com/consciousness.html
  Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.

• Consciousness Studies - Wikibooks

  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Consciousness_studies
  A free online textbook on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness.

• Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World

  http://cogprints.org/238/
  Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.

• Consciousness: The Detector Approach

  http://home.swipnet.se/~w-61325/ConsciousnessTheDetectorApproach/
  Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.

• Doorways in Consciousness

  http://www.vantagequest.org/trees/door1.htm
  Cultures around the globe embrace sound in healing, creation, and exploring consciousness. This essay connects creativity with healing, thus recreating health in the body.

• Dynamic Consciousness and the Reality of Free Will

  http://free-will.de/
  Concepts of existence, consciousness and awareness as well as a solution to the problem of free will.

• eGroups: consciousness

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/consciousness/
  A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.

• Explorations in Mind, Being and Reality

  http://horizons-2000.org/
  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.

• Geraint Rees Home Page

  http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~grees/
  The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.

• Global Consciousness Project

  http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
  Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.

• Honderich on Consciousness as Existence

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/
  First of the philosopher Ted Honderich's papers on the idea that perceptual consciousness is a kind of existence of things or a world.

• How does Cognition Influence Emotion?

  http://cnx.org/content/col11433/latest/
  A collection of articles about emotion, cognition and consciousness.

• INACS Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies

  http://www.inacs.org/
  Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.

• Intuition - Its Powers and Perils

  http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=19
  An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.

• Journal of Consciousness Studies

  http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html
  An interdisciplinary journal of consciousness studies publishing work in the sciences and humanities.

• Journal of Mind and Behavior

  http://www.umaine.edu/jmb/
  An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.

• Julian Jaynes Society

  http://www.julianjaynes.org/
  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.

• Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness

  http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23439/?id=1282
  Brie Gertler reviews this book by John Perry. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

• Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States

  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/consciousness.html
  Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).

• Max Velmans on Consciousness

  http://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/velpub/
  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.

• Memories Dreams Reflections

  http://memoriesdreamsreflections.com/
  An exploration in consciousness

• Metaphors of the Mind

  http://samvak.tripod.com/meta.html
  Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.

• Metaphysics by Default

  http://mbdefault.org/
  Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.

• Mind, Consciousness, and Language

  http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/
  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.

• Mystery of the Soul

  http://www.plotinus.com/
  Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.

• New York University Research Seminar on Consciousness.

  http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/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.

• On Minds' Localization

  http://cogprints.org/4662/
  Essay suggesting that observers are put in operative connection or disconnection with the surrounding occurrences by the physiologically modulated motion of unidentified microphysical particles.

• On the Possibility of Laws That Govern the Nature of Consciousness

  http://dfludd.com/noc/
  Perceptual information and consciousness studies.

• Presence - The book

  http://www.presencethebook.com/
  Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimental exploration of the functioning of consciousness.

• Quantum Resonance Theory

  http://user.xmission.com/~mkeener/
  A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.

• Science of Consciousness

  http://www.science-of-consciousness.com/
  A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.

• Some Concepts of Consciousness

  http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Abridged%20BBS.htm
  Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.

• Studies on Consciousness

  http://www.scaruffi.com/cogn.html
  Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.

• The Cerebral Code

  http://williamcalvin.com/bk9
  Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.

• The Human Consciousness Project

  http://www.nourfoundation.com/events/Beyond-the-Mind-Body-Problem/The-Human-Consciousness-Project.html
  The Human Consciousness Project is an international consortium of multidisciplinary scientists and physicians who have joined forces to research the nature of consciousness and its relationship with the brain.

• The Light Millennium

  http://www.lightmillennium.org/index.html
  Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.

• The Mind of Consciousness

  http://www.themindofconsciousness.com/
  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.

• The Neurohacker Quarterly

  http://neurohax.wordpress.com/
  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.

• The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

  http://www.sacaaa.org/
  A division of the American Anthropology Association, which convenes academic meetings and publishes scholarly journals.

• Unified Reality Theory

  http://www.unifiedreality.com/
  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.

• University of Philosophical Research

  http://www.uprs.edu/
  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".

• View from the Stranger's Gallery

  http://www.brianfelsen.com/
  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.

• Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained

  http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi/
  A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.

• Wasiwaska

  http://www.wasiwaska.org/
  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.

• What Can the Paranormal Teach Us About Consciousness?

  http://www.csicop.org/si/show/what_can_the_paranormal_teach_us_about_consciousness/
  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.

• Why the efficacy of consciousness cannot be limited to the mind

  https://sites.google.com/a/mindmattermapping.org/mmmp/home/journal-of-nonlocality/july-2003-vol-ii-nr-2/jnlii2letters
  Titus Rivas' essay argues that consciousness must ultimately have an impact on the physical world.

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