Open Questions: Consciousness
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Introduction
Site indexes
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Open Directory Project: Consciousness Studies
- Categorized and annotated links. A version of this
list is at
Google, with entries sorted in "page rank" order. May also be
found at
Netscape.
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Links on Consciousness, Mind, and Cognition
- By Nigel J. T. Thomas.
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CogSci World - Consciousness
- Annotated list of links by Henrik Gelius.
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Galaxy: Consciousness Studies
- Categorized site directory. Entries usually include
descriptive annotations.
Sites with general resources
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David Chalmers' Home Page
- Chalmers is a philosopher working especially in the philosophy
of mind. He has written extensively on consciousness, and his site
contains a great deal of relevant material on the subject, including
a very large list of links to
online papers on consciousnes.
There is also a very good bibliography of
scientific studies of consciousness.
Surveys, overviews, tutorials
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Coming to Attention
- July 2006 Scientific American Sidebar, subtitled
"How the brain decides what to focus conscious attention on."
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Why great minds can't grasp consciousness
- August 2005 article that discusses the possibility of a science
of consciousness.
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The Movie in Your Head
- September 2005 Scientific American sidebar, by Christof
Koch, subtitled "Is consciousness a seamless experience or a
string of fleeting images, like frames of a movie? The emerging
answer will determine whether the way we perceive the world is
illusory."
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The Quest to Find Consciousness
- January 2004 Scientific American Sidebar, subtitled
"By studying the brain's physical processes, scientists are
seeking clues about how the subjective inner life of the mind
arises."
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Side Splitting
- January 2001 Scientific American article, subtitled
"Jokes, ice water and magnetism can change your view of the
world--literally." It
suggests that the brain sometimes constructs alternative
representations that then compete for conscious attention.
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A Mind for Consciousness
- July 2001 Scientific American Profile article about
consciousness-researcher Christof Koch of Caltech.
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Crick's Treatment of Consciousness
- Critique of Crick's The Astonishing Hypothesis, by
Yehouda Harpaz.
- Spreading Consciousness
Bruce Bower
Science News, October 19, 2002, pp. 251-252
- A statistical analysis of data from functional magnetic
resonance imaging studies of the brain may be telling us
something about consciousness as a process that involves the
whole brain.
[References]
- Linking Mind to Brain: The Mathematics of Biological
Intelligence
Stephen Grossberg
Notices of the AMS, December 2000, pp. 1361-1372
- The question of how the brain gives rise to the mind may now
be within reach of mathematical modeling. There are now mathematical
models of brain function that can quantitatively simulate observed
dynamics of cells in brain circuitry.
[Article in PDF format]
- Do You See What They See?
Brad Lemley
Discover, December 1999, pp. 80-87
- Synesthesia is a rare trait which mixes sensory experience
in some people, enabling them to see sounds, smeall colors, and
taste shapes. Study of synesthesia may tell us a lot about
"ordinary" consciousness.
- How the Brain Creates the Mind
Antonio R. Damasio
Scientific American, December 1999, pp. 112-117
- Neuroscience is finally beginning to clarify how consciousness --
the sense of self -- arises from the function of specific portions
of the brain.
- Vision: A Window on Consciousness
Nikos K. Logothetis
Scientific American, November 1999, pp. 68-75
- The study of visual illusions can help understand the neural
mechanisms of consciousness
- The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
David J. Chalmers
Scientific American, December 1995, pp. 80-86
- In recent years neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers
have increasingly regarded consciousness as a phenomenon that might
be amenable to better explanation. The author, nevertheless, believes
that the question of how physical processes in the brain give rise
to subjective experience remains a hard problem.
- Can Science Explain Consciousness?
John Horgan
Scientific American, July 1994, pp. 88-94
- Whether science can ever hope to "explain" consciousness is
hotly debated. Opinions range from a certainty that neurobiology
can do it to the belief that consciousness is a mystery too
profound even for philosophy.
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