Consciousness Studies

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

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/

Astro Biological Coenergetics
An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.
http://www.tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics

Auditory Binding Experiment
Explores a phenomenon of mind-brain interaction which happens during the transition of awakening from sleep into awareness.
http://auditorybinding.org

Brain Science
Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
http://www.fys.dtu.dk/English/About_us/Staff.aspx?lg=showcommon&id=427&type=publications

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.
http://brainmeta.com

Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness
Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04274a.htm

Center of Scientific Divulgation about Consciousness (CSDC)
Analyses the inconsistencies of the materialistic view of man and mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledge about brain and matter.
http://xoomer.alice.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html

The Cerebral Code
Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
http://williamcalvin.com/bk9

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

Conscious Experience, Existence and Behaviour
Essay by A. Randrup subtitled "Significance of Consciousness in Human Life".
http://cogprints.org/4368/01/experienceexistence.html

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
Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, and near-death experiences.
http://www.geocities.com/player2000gi/consciousness.htm

Consciousness & The Brain
An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
http://www.consciousness-brain.org/

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 and 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 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, Brain and the Physical World
Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
http://cogprints.org/238/

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 physics.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal

Consciousness Research Laboratory
Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.
http://www.psiresearch.org/

Consciousness Studies
Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/

Consciousness Studies - Wikibooks
A free online textbook on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Consciousness_studies

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: The Unity of Perception, Aspiration, and Emotion and its Control Mechanisms
Short online 'book' (or long article) by Johannes Dressler (English translation of the original German).
http://www.dressler-consciousness.de/

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.orconhosting.net.nz/con/index.html

Does Consciousness Exist in 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/dierbewust/consciousness.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/

Dynamic Consciousness and the Reality of Free Will
Concepts of existence, consciousness and awareness as well as a solution to the problem of free will.
http://free-will.de/

The Efficacy of Consciousness and Psychological Theory: A Short Comment
Non-reductive forms of physicalism may be influential, but Titus Rivas tries to show why they should be rejected as incoherent.
http://www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/efficaciouspsyche.html

eGroups: consciousness
A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/consciousness/

EmergentMind, Mapping the Frontiers of Consciousness
Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
http://www.emergentmind.org

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/

Gaia Mind
Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
http://www.gaiamind.org

Geometric Theory of Consciousness
An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lka/geometric.htm

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

INACS Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies
Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.
http://www.inacs.org/

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 Consciousness Studies.
Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.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://www.julianjaynes.org/

Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness
Brie Gertler reviews this book by John Perry. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1282

The Light Millennium
Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
http://www.lightmillennium.org/index.html

Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States
Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/consciousness.html

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/

Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain
Essay by Titus Rivas subtitled "Subjective awareness and the location of concepts of consciousness".
http://www.emergentmind.org/rivas06.htm

Mind, Consciousness, and Language
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.
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/

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

New York University Research Seminar on 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.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/consciousness/

On Minds' Localization .
Essya suggestin that observers are put in operative connection or disconnection with the surrounding occurrences by the physiologically modulated motion of unidentified microphysical particles.
http://cogprints.org/4662/

On the Possibility of Laws That Govern the Nature of Consciousness
Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
http://dfludd.com/noc/

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/

Phenomenology and Neurodynamics.
Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.
http://www.geocities.com/t_z_ramsoy/

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

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/

Quantum Resonance Theory
A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
http://www.xmission.com/~mkeener

The Question of Animal Awareness
Paper about animal consciousness, by Esteban Rivas and Titus Rivas, in science and the human-animal Relationship, 1993.
http://members.lycos.nl/dierbewust/culture.html

Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness
Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
http://www.psy.uva.nl/ResEdu

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 of Consciousness
A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
http://www.science-of-consciousness.com/

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

Staged Present - Attending to the Mystical on the Stage of Working Memory
Thesis by Nadia Delicata discussing consciousness, mystical experience, and an experiment concerning the effect of focused attention on working memory.
http://nadia.delicata.net

Studies on Consciousness
Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.
http://www.thymos.com/

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/

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/

The Unified Theory of the Nervous System and Behavior
New theory that takes the mathematical concept of nerve cell interactions as being a form of mathematics that links neural activity to psychology.
http://stevenmichaelharris.com/theory/

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/

Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained
A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi/

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/

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.
http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-03/conciousness.html

Why the efficacy of consciousness cannot be limited to the mind
Titus Rivas' essay argues that consciousness must ultimately have an impact on the physical world.
http://www.emergentmind.org/lettersII2.htm