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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.html
Adventure 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. The di
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/
Brain Science 
Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
http://info.fysik.dtu.dk/Brainscience/people/rodney.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
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 & 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 Rules 
Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
http://consciousnessrules.net
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 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, 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 physic
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: 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
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/
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
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
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 Mind and Behavior 
An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.
http://www.umaine.edu/jmb/
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/
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 to r
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 is ide
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
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.
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/
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
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
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 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 Chalmers,
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
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 Consciousness
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 Light Millennium 
Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
http://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.
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
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
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/
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/
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, Brazil.
http://www.wasiwaska.org/
eGroups: consciousness 
A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/consciousness
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