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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.
Consciousness Research Laboratory http://www.psiresearch.org/: Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.
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.
Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness http://www.psy.uva.nl/ResEdu: Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
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.
Science of Consciousness http://www.science-of-consciousness.com/: A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
MindWarp http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/mindwarp.html: The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
Journal of Consciousness Studies. http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html: Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
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.
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.
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.
Omnipresent Consciousness and Freedom of Choice http://members.aol.com/ClJanew/welcome.htm: A solution to the problem of free will.
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.
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).
The Light Millennium http://www.lightmillennium.org/index.html: Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi/: A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04274a.htm: Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Astro Biological Coenergetics http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics: An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.
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.
On the possibility of laws that govern the nature of consciousness http://dfludd.0catch.com/: Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/02/38/cog00000238-00/199801005.html: Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
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.
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.
EmergentMind, Mapping the Frontiers of Consciousness http://www.emergentmind.org: Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
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.
Phenomenology and Neurodynamics. http://www.geocities.com/t_z_ramsoy/: Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.
Geometric Theory of Consciousness http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lka/geometric.htm: An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.
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.
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.
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.
Staged Present - Attending to the Mystical on the Stage of Working Memory http://nadia.delicata.net: Thesis by Nadia Delicata discussing consciousness, mystical experience, and an experiment concerning the effect of focused attention on working memory.
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.
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.
Unified theory of the nervous system & behavior http://www.stevenharris.com/theory/: New theory that takes the mathematical concept of nerve cell interactions as being a form of mathematics that links neural activity to psychology.
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.
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.
Consciousness: The Unity of Perception, Aspiration, and Emotion and its Control Mechanisms http://www.dressler-consciousness.de/: Short online 'book' (or long article) by Johannes Dressler (English translation of the original German).
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.
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.
Conscious Experience, Existence and Behaviour http://cogprints.org/4368/01/experienceexistence.html: Essay by A. Randrup subtitled "Significance of Consciousness in Human Life".
Consciousness Studies - Wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Consciousness_studies: A free online textbook on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness.
On Minds' Localization . http://cogprints.org/4662/: Essya suggestin that observers are put in operative connection or disconnection with the surrounding occurrences by the physiologically modulated motion of unidentified microphysical particles.
Auditory Binding Experiment http://auditorybinding.org: Explores a phenomenon of mind-brain interaction which happens during the transition of awakening from sleep into awareness.
Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain http://www.emergentmind.org/rivas06.htm: Essay by Titus Rivas subtitled "Subjective awareness and the location of concepts of consciousness".
Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1282: Brie Gertler reviews this book by John Perry. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Center of Scientific Divulgation about Consciousness (CSDC) http://xoomer.alice.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.
Brain Science http://www.fys.dtu.dk/English/About_us/Staff.aspx?lg=showcommon&id=427&type=publications...: Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
Why the efficacy of consciousness cannot be limited to the mind http://www.emergentmind.org/lettersII2.htm: Titus Rivas' essay argues that consciousness must ultimately have an impact on the physical world.
The Question of Animal Awareness http://members.lycos.nl/dierbewust/culture.html: Paper about animal consciousness, by Esteban Rivas and Titus Rivas, in science and the human-animal Relationship, 1993.

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