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これは凄い！意識に関する研究・アイデアのwikibooksのまとめ。図やレファレンスもしっかり。 RT @shuzo_skt Consciousness studies? There is a website for that. http://bit.ly/83lhmr
yosshig (yosshig) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:09:56 -0000
これは凄い！意識に関する研究・アイデアのwikibooksのまとめ。図やレファレンスもしっかり。 RT @shuzo_skt Consciousness studies? There is a website for that. http://bit.ly/83lhmr
Consciousness studies? There is a website for that. http://bit.ly/83lhmr
shuzo_skt (Shuzo Sakata) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:29:20 -0000
Consciousness studies? There is a website for that. http://bit.ly/83lhmr
@skeetswrites: maybe she'll take media$ 2enroll in IndigenousNations/Am Indian Studies courses 2gain needed critical consciousness &context.
goodfox (julia good fox) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:56:44 -0000
@skeetswrites: maybe she'll take media$ 2enroll in IndigenousNations/Am Indian Studies courses 2gain needed critical consciousness &context.
Psyche is the official journal of Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness: http://tinyurl.com/yddm5hr
fernandovluna (Fernando Villanueva) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:42:46 -0000
Psyche is the official journal of Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness: http://tinyurl.com/yddm5hr
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies http://bit.ly/4PVfme
BuddhistBuzz (Buddhist Buzz) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:03:33 -0000
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies http://bit.ly/4PVfme
@suzzzanna Subjecting your body or altered consciousness to experimental studies for tuition money is not a crime.
Cody_K (Cody Kessler) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:38:16 -0000
@suzzzanna Subjecting your body or altered consciousness to experimental studies for tuition money is not a crime.

 

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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.
Meta Description: [ News and views from the fast-growing science of consciousness ]

behavior - New theory that takes the mathematical concept of nerve cell interactions as being a form of mathematics that links neural activity to psychology.

404 its Existence in Non-Human Animals - Considers whether or not non-human animals should be considered subjective, sentient beings.

Philosophy of Consciousness - An empirical approach to consciousness including reviews of philosophical concepts and neuroscience.

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.
Meta Description: [ Learn about spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo ]

Another Linguistic Turn? - Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.

404 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.

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.

Astro Biological Coenergetics - An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.

500 Brain Science - Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.

Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness - Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ In its widest sense it includes all sensations, thoughts, feelings, and volitions, in fact the sum total of mental life ]

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.
Meta Description: [ We analyse the inconsintencies of the materialistic conception of the human mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledges about matter and brain ]

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.

404 Comments on: Amit Goswami's 'Science within Consciousness' - A critique of Amit Goswami's views,arguing that Goswami's 'monism' is really a dualism in which mind and matter are irreducibly different.
Meta Description: [ Discussion of Amit Goswami's 'Science Within Consciousness'. ]

Conscious Entities - Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.
Meta Description: [ Arguments about consciousness - the people and theories. Short summaries and views about the major topics - minds, brains, and computers; spirits, souls and materialism; philosophy and science. ]

Consciousness - Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.

404 Consciousness and Cognition - Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.

Consciousness and Experiential Psychology - Section of the British Psychological Society. Information on the Section, its aims and activities, including its journal Consciousness Experiential Psychology

Consciousness and Microtubules - A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.

Consciousness and Neuroscience - Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.

Consciousness and Psychophysics - By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on Universal Consciousness
Meta Description: [ Complex Systems research,Black Box Structure analysis,Metaphysics of Consciousness,Physics and the Discussion of Conscious Behavior. ]

Consciousness as an Active Force - Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.

404 Consciousness in the Natural World Project - Contains details of the project, analytic philosophy papers and bibliographies on the mind and consciousness, and links to philosophy of mind resources. Director: Dr Jose Luis Bermudez.

Consciousness Research Laboratory - Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.

Consciousness Rules - Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
Meta Description: [ Definitions, essays and links to remind us that we are manifestations of a creative universal consciousness ]

Consciousness Studies - Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.

404 Consciousness Studies by Peter B. Lloyd - The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.
Meta Description: [ The nature of consciousness, and its relationship to the physical world,with reference to George Berkeley and psi phenomena. ]

404 Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World - Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.

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.

Consciousness: The Detector Approach - Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.

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).
Meta Description: [ The Unity of Perception, Aspiration, and Emotion and its Control Mechanisms ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Parapsychologists seem to assume that psychic phenomena would prove the ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Some ideas about how people's perception of the world has changed since pre-history. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Many cultures around the globe embrace sound in healing, creation, and therapy. This essay connects creativity with healing, an act of regeneration, thus recreating health in the body. ]

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.

eGroups: consciousness - A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
Meta Description: [ consciousness: Consciousness ]

EmergentMind, Mapping the Frontiers of Consciousness - Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
Meta Description: [ An interdisciplinary science forum focusing on holographic theories of consciousness and the development of experimental approaches to mind-matter interactions. ]

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.

404 Francisco Varela's Home Page - Bibliography and online articles by this distinguished Consciousness researcher, phenomenologist, and neuroscientist. In both French and English.

Gaia Mind - Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.

Geometric Theory of Consciousness - An attempt to explain consciousness in terms of 4-dimensional geometry.

Geraint Rees Home Page - The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.
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Global Consciousness Project - Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
Meta Description: [ Scientific research network studying global consciousness: Description, Specifications, Data Access, Results ]

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.

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

Intuition - Its Powers and Perils - An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.

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.

Journal of Consciousness Studies. - Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..

Journal of Mind and Behavior - An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.
Meta Description: [ The Journal of Mind and Behavior (JMB) is a scholarly publication that urges explorations into a mind/body epistemology upon the study of human consciousness, the relation of theory and method in that exploration, as well as the need to form empirical situations for testing hypotheses etc. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ The primary goals of the Julian Jaynes Society are to foster discussion and a better understanding of the life, work, and theories of Julian Jaynes, the implications of his bicameral mind theory of consciousness, and the topic of consciousness in general ]

Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States - Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).

404 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.
Meta Description: [ Psychology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London ]

Meaning - the emergence of meaning (semiosis) - From analysis of neurocognitive/affective processes of the Brain the site comes up with a model of meaning that includes Mind being an abstraction from Brain and our species fundamental adaptation has been to light/EMF processing. From this work is identified a template used to create metaphors.
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Metaphors of the Mind - Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.
Meta Description: [ Many metaphors - technologiclal, artistic, and literary - have been used throughout the ages to explain the functioning of the brain. ]

Metaphysics by Default - Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
Meta Description: [ Severing the magic umbilical - by reconciling metaphysics to the natural sciences | cited by MIT, Britannica | Original Contribution Award | breakout thesis & academic resource. ]

Mind, Consciousness, and Language - 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.
Meta Description: [ Free website on relationships between mind, consciousness, language. Gives anyone opportunity to present researches in these fields, expound theories and ideas. Informs about activities and researches carried out worldwide. ]

MindWarp - The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.

Mystery of the Soul - Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
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Esoteric teachings spiritual exercises meditations to unfold cosmic consciousness

Nanoneurobiology - Interdisciplinary study of consciousness. Provides both theoretical models and experimental verifications. Based on author's contributions in this field.
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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.

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.

Omnipresent Consciousness and Freedom of Choice - A solution to the problem of free will.
Meta Description: [ A real solution to the problem of free will ]

On the possibility of laws that govern the nature of consciousness - Perceptual information and consciousness studies.

Presence - The book - Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
Meta Description: [ Consciousness and mind interation ]

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.

Quantum Resonance Theory - A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.

Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness - Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
Meta Description: [ Geen beschrijving ]

Science of Consciousness - A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
Meta Description: [ A paper on the science of consciousness by Norman Stubbs. ]

Science within Consciousness - An online newsletter attempting to answer the hard questions of consciousness on the premise that consciousness is the ground of all being.

404 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.

Some Concepts of Consciousness - Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.

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.
Meta Description: [ Psychology, Mysticism, Working Memory, Thesis, Cognitive Psychology, Mystical consciousness, Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory ]

Studies on Consciousness - Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.
Meta Description: [ This page contains information about Piero Scaruffi's research and teaching activities in Cognitive Science, Psychology of Consciousness and Philosophy of Mind, as well as links to his papers and to the annotated bibliography of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, artificial... ]

404 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.

404 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.

The Cerebral Code - Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
Meta Description: [ Chapter titles: The Representation Problem and the Copying Solution, Cloning in Cerebral Cortex, A Compressed Code Emerges, Managing the Cerebral Commons, Resonating with your Chaotic Memories, Partitioning the Playfield, The Brownian Notion, Convergence Zones with a Hint of Sex, Chimes on t... ]

404 The denial of consciousness in non-human 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.

The Light Millennium - Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
Meta Description: [ A-not-profit organization. To explore and embrace all ideas relating history and present time as well as imaging and predicting the future in a positive way by the readers, who are the soul of this platform. As a reader, you already have been shaping this platform for a better world since January... ]

The Penrose-Hameroff Model of Consciousness - Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
Meta Description: [ quantum theory and microtubules as a theory of consciousness, in collaboration with Roger Penrose ]

404 The Presence - An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.
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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.
Meta Description: [ A theory of consciousness. Why Roger Penrose is wrong. New mathematical journals just in case he is right. ]

500 Toward a Science of Consciousness - Abstracts of papers presented at the big Tucson II, Tucson III, and Tucson 2000 Toward a Science of Consciousness conferences, and other recent consciousness conferences. Plus links to press reports on the Tucson conferences.

Twin Data Stream Theory of Consciousness - A theory of consciousness and dreaming devised by novelist and playwright Paul Ableman, with purported implications for understanding various psychopathologies.
Meta Description: [ Paul Ableman's revolutionary theory of consciousness 'The Twin-Data-Stream Theory' is explained and its potential importance for the treatment of mental disorders is emphasized. ]

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.

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

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.
Meta Description: [ STRANGERS' GALLERY - an multimedia artwork about consciousness by Brian Felsen ]

Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained - A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
Meta Description: [ a scientific hypothesis for the origin of mind based in evolutionary biology ]

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.