- Consciousness and the Brain - http://home.earthlink.net/~dravita/
An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
- The Penrose-Hameroff Model of Consciousness - http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hameroff/
Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
- Mystery of the Soul - http://www.plotinus.com/
Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
- Gaia Mind - http://www.gaiamind.org
Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
- Consciousness Studies - http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
- Global Consciousness Project - http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
- Science within Consciousness - http://www.swcp.com/~hswift/swc/
An online newsletter attempting to answer the "hard questions" of consciousness on the premise that consciousness is the ground of all being.
- Studies on Consciousness - http://www.thymos.com/
Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.
- 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.
- PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness - http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/
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.
- Quantum Resonance Theory - http://www.xmission.com/~mkeener
A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
- Honderich on Consciousness as Existence - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/index.htm
First of the philosopher Ted Honderich's papers on the idea that perceptual consciousness is a kind of existence of things or a world.
- 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.
- MindWarp - http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/mindwarp.html
The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
- Theories of Consciousness - http://www.1729.com/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.
- Development of Western Consciousness - http://rimu.orcon.net.nz/con/index.html
Some ideas about how consciousness has changed since pre-history up until the present day, and how it will continue to change.
- 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.
- Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness - http://www.assc.caltech.edu/
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.
- Metaphysics by Default - http://mbdefault.org/
Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
- 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".
- 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.
- JCS-Online -- Digest of the Key Debates - http://www.imprint.co.uk/online_index.html
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.
- Consciousness in the Natural World Project - http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/arts/philosophy/cnw/webpage1.htm
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.
- The Archives of PSYCHE-D - http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/psyche-d.html
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.
- Archives of PSYCHE-B - http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/psyche-b.html
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.
- Scientific Approaches to Consciousness: Reductionism Debated - http://www.nimh.nih.gov/events/consciousness.cfm
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.
- Twin Data Stream Theory of Consciousness - http://www.twindatastream.com
A theory of consciousness and dreaming devised by novelist and playwright Paul Ableman, with purported implications for understanding various psychopathologies.
- Quantum Mind Mailing List - http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind.html
Home page and archive for moderated mailing list devoted to quantum mechanical approaches to consciousness.
- Francisco Varela's Home Page - http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/varela/
Bibliography and online articles by this distinguished Consciousness researcher, phenomenologist, and neuroscientist. In both French and English.
- Meaning - the emergence of meaning (semiosis) - http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting
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.
- The Light Millennium - http://www.lightmillennium.org/index.html
Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
- 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.
- The Presence - http://users.senet.com.au/~presence/SitePages/KeysToEternity/KeyEternityFrames.html
An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
- eGroups: consciousness - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/consciousness
A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
- Consciousness and Psychophysics - http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/E.Eijkman/
By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness".
- Toward a Science of Consciousness - http://www.imprint-academic.demon.co.uk/SPECIAL/tucson.html
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.
- 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.
- Consciousness: what can the paranormal teach us about it? - http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-03/conciousness.html
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.
- 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.
- Mind, Consciousness, and Language - http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The denial of consciousness in non-human animals - http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/index-17.html
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.
- 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.
- Dr. Charles T. Tart, Home Page and Virtual Library - http://paradigm-sys.com/cttart/
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.
- 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.
- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts - http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal
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.
- Brain Science - http://info.fysik.dtu.dk/Brainscience/people/rodney.html
Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
- Consciousness Rules - http://consciousnessrules.net
Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
- Consciousness and Cognition - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10538100
Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.
- Max Velmans on Consciousness - http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/psychology/staff/velpub.html
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.
- Intuition - Its Powers and Perils - http://www.davidmyers.org/intuition
An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.
- Presence - The book - http://www.presencethebook.com
Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
- The Cerebral Code - http://williamcalvin.com/bk9
Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
- The Causally Efficacious Psyche - http://members.lycos.nl/Kritisch/efficaciouspsyche.html
Non-reductive forms of physicalism may be influential, but Titus Rivas tries to show why they should be rejected as incoherent.
- 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.
- Another Linguistic Turn? - http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v4/psyche-4-02-kaye.html
Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.
- Consciousness & Personality from many perspectives. - http://www.geocities.com/player2000gi/consciousness.htm
Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, NDE's etc.
- Nanoneurobiology - http://free.hostdepartment.com/d/dankomed/
Interdisciplinary study of consciousness. Provides both theoretical models and experimental verifications. Based on author's contributions in this field.
- Science & Philosophy of Consciousness - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lka/conz.htm
An empirical approach to consciousness including reviews of philosophical concepts and neuroscience.
- Conscious Entities - http://www.consciousentities.com/index.htm
Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.
- Consciousness Studies by Peter B. Lloyd - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/cns.htm
The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.
- Consciousness Studies - http://www.thwww.com/mrwizard/cnepage1.htm
Listing of useful links and their brief descriptions.
- Ultimate Computing - http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/hameroff/ultimate_comp/introtoultcomp.htm
Publication by Stuart R Hameroff on biomolecular consciousness and nanotechnology.
- 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.
- Science And Consciousness Review - http://www.sci-con.org/
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.
- Consciousness and Neuroscience - http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/crick-koch-cc-97.html
Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.
- Christof Koch's Real Home Page - http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/index-main-page.html
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.
- David Chalmers' Home Page - http://jamaica.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/
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 and related topics by other people.
- Consciousness and Experiential Psychology - http://www.warwick.ac.uk/cep/
Section of the British Psychological Society. Information on the Section, its aims and activities, including its journal "Consciousness & Experiential Psychology".
- NeuroQuantology - http://www.neuroquantology.com
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.
- 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.
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