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Sites describing research into Consciousness via various disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, mythology, and mystical exploration.

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• The Cerebral Code - Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.
  
• The Light Millennium - Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.
  
• Studies on Consciousness - Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Journal of Mind and Behavior - An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.
  
• Metaphysics by Default - Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.
  
• Astro Biological Coenergetics - An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.
  
• 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 physic
  
• Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness - Brie Gertler reviews this book by John Perry. From Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  
• 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.
  
• Auditory Binding Experiment - Explores a phenomenon of mind-brain interaction which happens during the transition of awakening from sleep into awareness.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Metaphors of the Mind - Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.
  
• 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".
  
• Consciousness and Cognition - Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.
  
• Geraint Rees Home Page - The neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.
  
• Gaia Mind - Home page of an organization which supports research into the global nature of Consciousness.
  
• Conscious Entities - Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.
  
• Consciousness - Entry commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. By Eric Lormand of the University of Michigan.
  
• 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.
  
• Another Linguistic Turn? - Review by Lawrence Kaye of `Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology' by Peter Carruthers.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Consciousness and Neuroscience - Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Intuition - Its Powers and Perils - An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.
  
• 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.
  
• Journal of Consciousness Studies. - Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..
  
• Presence - The book - Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimental exploration of the functioning of consciousness.
  
• The Question of Animal Awareness - Paper about animal consciousness, by Esteban Rivas and Titus Rivas, in science and the human-animal Relationship, 1993.
  
• Consciousness Studies - Wikibooks - A free online textbook on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness.
  
• Charles T. Tart Home Page and Consciousness Library Online - 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.
  
• Some Concepts of Consciousness - Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.
  
• Consciousness as an Active Force - Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of consciousness.
  
• eGroups: consciousness - A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
  
• 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.
  
• Global Consciousness Project - Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.
  
• INACS Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies - Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.
  
• 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.
  
• EmergentMind, Mapping the Frontiers of Consciousness - Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.
  
• Dressler Consciousness - Short online book by Johannes Dressler.
  
• The Penrose-Hameroff Model of Consciousness - Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.
  
• Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States - Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).
  
• On the Possibility of Laws That Govern the Nature of Consciousness - Perceptual information and consciousness studies.
  
• Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World - Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
  
• Consciousness & Personality - Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, and near-death experiences.
  
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Consciousness - Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Mystery of the Soul - Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.
  
• 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".
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Consciousness Studies - Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Conscious Experience, Existence and Behaviour - Essay by A. Randrup subtitled "Significance of Consciousness in Human Life".
  
• Science of Consciousness - A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.
  
• Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain - Essay by Titus Rivas subtitled "Subjective awareness and the location of concepts of consciousness".
  
• 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.
  
• Brain Science - Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.
  
• Science & Philosophy of Consciousness - An empirical approach to consciousness including reviews of philosophical concepts and neuroscience.
  
• Quantum Resonance Theory - A grand unified theory of consciousness, based on mysticism (primarily Kabbalah) and quantum theory.
  
• Consciousness and Microtubules - A critical discussion of philosophy and science,and the scientized philosophy of consciousness, with special reference to materialism and David Papineau.
  
• MindWarp - The MindWarp deals with various technologies for the alteration of consciousness - chemical, electronic, and rhythmic.
  
• 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.
  
• Consciousness and Psychophysics - By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal Consciousness".
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Consciousness Research Laboratory - Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.
  
• Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness - Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.
  
• Consciousness: The Detector Approach - Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.
  
• Virtual Reality: Consciousness Really Explained - A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.
  
• 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.
  
• Consciousness & The Brain - An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.
  
  

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