| 1. | Consciousness and the Brain | | | An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
home.earthlink.net |
| 3. | Mystery of the Soul | | | Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
www.plotinus.com |
| 4. | Gaia Mind | | | Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
www.gaiamind.org |
| 5. | Consciousness Studies | | | Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
www.consciousness.arizona.edu |
| 6. | Global Consciousness Project | | | Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
noosphere.princeton.edu |
| 8. | Studies on Consciousness | | | Devoted to the study of consciousness, mind and cognition, with regular reviews and essays, and a bibliography on the subject.
www.thymos.com |
| 9. | Consciousness as an Active Force | | | Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.
www.renresearch.com |
| 11. | 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.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au |
| 13. | 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.
www.vantagequest.org |
| 15. | MindWarp | | | The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
www.fiu.edu |
| 18. | 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.
rimu.orcon.net.nz |
| 19. | Consciousness and Microtubules | | | A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.
www.ucl.ac.uk |
| 20. | 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.
www.assc.caltech.edu |
| 21. | Metaphysics by Default | | | Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
mbdefault.org |
| 24. | 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.
horizons-2000.org |
| 25. | 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.
www.imprint.co.uk |
| 27. | 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 Studies movement have taken part. Archives go back to April 1993.
listserv.uh.edu |
| 28. | 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 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.
listserv.uh.edu |
| 29. | 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, and Patricia Churchland.
www.nimh.nih.gov |
| 32. | The Light Millennium | | | Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
www.lightmillennium.org |
| 35. | 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.
www.brianfelsen.com |
| 36. | The Presence | | | An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
users.senet.com.au |
| 38. | Mindgate | | | Site outlining a personal theory about the nature of mind and consciousness, and selling a book about it.
www.mindgatethebook.com |
| 40. | Toward a Science of Consciousness | | | conferences, and other recent consciousness conferences. Plus links to press reports on the Tucson conferences.
www.imprint-academic.demon.co.uk |
| 41. | 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.
julianjaynessociety.tripod.com |
| 42. | Metaphors of the Mind | | | Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.
samvak.tripod.com |
| 43. | 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.
www.csicop.org |
| 44. | Consciousness | | | Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.
www-personal.umich.edu |
| 45. | Mind, Consciousness, and Language | | | 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.
www.mind-consciousness-language.com |
| 48. | 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.
www.unifiedreality.com |
| 50. | Science And Consciousness Review | | | An attempt to build a community for disseminating information about events and new scientific findings in the field of consciousness research. Sponsored by some of the leading names in the field.
psych.pomona.edu |
| 52. | Geraint Rees Home Page | | | The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk |
| 57. | 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.
www.lightendlesslight.org |
| 58. | Consciousness Rules | | | Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
consciousnessrules.net |
| 59. | 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 reviews.
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk |
| 60. | Presence - The book | | | Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
www.presencethebook.com |
| 61. | 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.
members.lycos.nl |
| 63. | Wasiwaska | | | drugs in general. Located in Florianópolis, Brazil.
www.wasiwaska.org |
| 64. | Another Linguistic Turn? | | | Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au |
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