Consciousness

Not so long ago, consciousness was not a legitimate area for scientific inquiry. Recently, it has emerged as a multidisciplinary field that integrates neuroscience, philosophy, behavioral science, biology, physics and more. As pain is a phenomenon of consciousness by definition, consciousness research has strong implications for the study of pain. Moreover, pain research offers consciousness researchers a novel window on the brain and awareness. The following links are potentially important resources for pain researchers and clinicians.

I have tried to limit the links to those that involve serious scholarship. In addition, I have omitted most parapsychology and mysticism sites, pages aimed at "expanding" consciousness, out-of-body experience pages, self-improvement sites, and "religious science" links (Yes, I know this is an oxymoron, but it exists). Unfortunately, science will have to lay claim to territory currently owned by the occult and New Age culture.

DISCLAIMER: My listing a link below does not imply that I, the University of Utah, or the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center endorse it, its mission, or the person or organization behind it. These links are here for informational purposes only.

Organizations

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Mind/Brain Resources: A Research Aid
Consciousness Studies at U. Arizona
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Topic Areas, Themes

Brain Project (Jones)
Live Artificial Life Page
Mind Uploading Home Page
Sciences Cognitives et Conscience (In French)
Epistemology, Consciousness, and the Mind
Animal and Human Minds (Paddy Carroll)
Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor On Line
Consciousness Research Laboratory
Going Inside - A Guide to the Dynamics of Brain Processing and Consciousness (McCrone)
Given's Anthropology of Consciousness Site
Grand Illusions
Mind/Brain Resources (Hardcastle)
Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science
The Sarfatti Group
Memetics
States of Unitive Consciousness
Self-Organizing Systems
SWIF Notebooks: Philosophy of Mind

Essays

Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness (Daniel C. Dennett)
From Neurons to Consciousness (Diego Doval)
Broadcast Networks, Temporal Codes, and Global Integration (Peter Cariani)
On the Cognitive Contingency of Consciousness (Thomas W. Clark)
Death, Nothingness and Subjectivity (Thomas W. Clark)
Searle's Theory of Intentionality (Niels Ole Bernsen)
Mind-Body Continuism: Duality Without dualism (Edward W. James)
Online Papers on Consciousness (Chalmers)
The Dynamical Hypothesis in Cognitive Science (Tim van Gelder)
Constructing the Relational Mind (John G. Taylor)
Nature of Consciousness (Alan Watts)

Journals

Journal of Consciousness Studies
PSYCHE - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on Consciousness
Consciousness and Physical Reality (Russian)

Meetings and Seminars, etc

Graduate Seminar in Consciousness Studies (University of Arizona)
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness: Electronic Seminars
Tucson III Meeting Abstract (4/27 - 5/2 1998)
PSYCHE-D mailing list archives

Home Pages of Individual Consciousness Researchers and Philosophers

Ned Block
David Chalmers
Axel Cleeremans
Daniel C. Dennett
Walter J. Freeman
Stuart Hameroff
Valerie Hardcastle
Stuart Hameroff
Piet Hut
Christof Koch
Charles Laughlin
Ronald Lemmen
Mike Levin
Thomas Metzinger
Michael C. Mozer
Daniel L. Schacter
Alwyn Scott
Aaron Sloman
John Taylor
Patrick Wilken

Consciousness Teasers

Interactive Optical Illusions
The Escher/Penrose Cube

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