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Consciousness Studies - http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Journal of Consciousness Studies. - http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html
Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal.. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Journal of Mind and Behavior - http://www.umaine.edu/jmb/
An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Charles T. Tart Home Page and Consciousness Library Online - 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. |
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Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness - http://www.psy.uva.nl/ResEdu
Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Gaia Mind - http://www.gaiamind.org
Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness. |
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04274a.htm
Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia. |
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Consciousness & The Brain - http://www.consciousness-brain.org/
An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists. |
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The Light Millennium - http://www.lightmillennium.org/index.html
Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness. |
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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". |
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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. |
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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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Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained - http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi
A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Metaphysics by Default - http://mbdefault.org/
Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness. |
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Consciousness Research Laboratory - http://www.psiresearch.org/
Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world. |
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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. |
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Astro Biological Coenergetics - http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics
An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception. |
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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. |
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Science of Consciousness - http://www.science-of-consciousness.com/
A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs. |
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MindWarp - http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/mindwarp.html
The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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". |
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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 and Experiential Psychology". |
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Consciousness and Personality - http://player2000gi.host-ed.net/consciousness.htm
Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, and near-death experiences. |
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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. |
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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". |
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Auditory Binding Experiment - http://auditorybinding.org
Explores a phenomenon of mind-brain interaction which happens during the transition of awakening from sleep into awareness. |
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Dressler Consciousness - http://www.dressler-consciousness.de/
Short online book by Johannes Dressler. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Efficacy of Consciousness and Psychological Theory: A Short Comment - http://members.lycos.nl/titusrivas/efficaciouspsyche.html
Non-reductive forms of physicalism may be influential, but Titus Rivas tries to show why they should be rejected as incoherent. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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eGroups: consciousness - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/consciousness/
A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. |
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Does Consciousness Exist in Animals? - http://members.lycos.nl/dierbewust/consciousness.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. |
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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. |
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Development of Western Consciousness - http://rimu.orconhosting.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. |
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Consciousness and Cognition - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10538100
Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal. |