Study of consciousness, mind and cognition. Contains regular reviews, essays and a bibliography on the subject.

Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.

Presents a practical approach to the mystery of consciousness.

Presents scientifically rigorous experiments on consciousness coordinated by Roger Nelson's team at Princeton.

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.

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.

An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.

Bibliography and online articles by this distinguished Consciousness researcher, phenomenologist, and neuroscientist. In both French and English.

Paper by Nobel laureate Francis Crick and neuroscientist Cristof Koch.

Home page and archive for moderated mailing list devoted to quantum mechanical approaches to consciousness.

An unorthodox look at mind, consciousness and perception.

Entry from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.

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

An extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

Information and scholarly publications on theories concerning neuronal microtubules as the microsites of consciousness through quantum effects.

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

Synopsis of two projects using random event generators to investigate Consciousness.

An online newsletter attempting to answer the "hard questions" of consciousness on the premise that consciousness is the ground of all being.

Amy Lansky, a researcher in artificial intelligence, argues against a purely neurophysiological explanation of 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.

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.

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

First of the philosopher Ted Honderich's papers on the idea that perceptual consciousness is a kind of existence of things or a world.

Cultures around the globe embrace sound in healing, creation, and exploring consciousness. This essay connects creativity with healing, thus recreating health in the body.

A theory of the conscious mind, by Norman Stubbs.

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

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

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.

Some ideas about how consciousness has changed since pre-history up until the present day, and how it will continue to change.

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

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.

Combines concepts from philosophy and science to describe a hypothetical framework for considering transmigration of consciousness.

Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.

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".

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.

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.

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.

A solution to the problem of free will.

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.

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.

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.

A theory of consciousness and dreaming devised by novelist and playwright Paul Ableman, with purported implications for understanding various psychopathologies.

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.

Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).

Articles on the relationship of light to the phenomenon of consciousness.

A radical scientific and evolutionary hypothesis about the origin of mind. By Jerome Iglowitz.

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.

An exploration of consciousness utilizing scientific, mystical and Taoist principles.

Prepared for a seminar conducted by Ned Block and Thomas Nagel, this page provides links to papers by a distinguished roster of contemporary philosophers.

A moderated, interdisciplinary forum for academic consciousness researchers, including philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.

By E.G.J. Eijkman, Dutch Medical Physicist. Main content is an essay on "Universal 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.

Dr. Sam Vaknin considers the appropriateness of metaphors, particularly the computer metaphor, used to describe the brain.

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.

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

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.

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

Perceptual information and consciousness studies.

Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.

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.

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 neuroscience of consciousness. Many published articles by Dr. Rees are made available here.

Key papers, discussions and research leads focusing on holographic models of mind and mind-body interactions.

Homepage of Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, making available his drafts and articles.

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

A spiritual view of Consciousness - its planes, gradations, parts, evolution and change of consciousness as explained by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

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.

Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.

Access to abstracts of articles, submission guidelines, and subscription information of the print journal.

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.

An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.

Offering excerpts from a book that tries to define existence through experimential exploration of the functioning of consciousness.

Thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind.

Non-reductive forms of physicalism may be influential, but Titus Rivas tries to show why they should be rejected as incoherent.

Thesis by Nadia Delicata discussing consciousness, mystical experience, and an experiment concerning the effect of focused attention on working memory.

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.

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

Insight into the science of consciousness from many perspectives: physics, science, mind-body medicine, psychology, spirituality and religion, NDE's etc.

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

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

Considers whether or not non-human animals should be considered subjective, sentient beings.

Concise illustrated descriptions and discussions of leading philosophical theories of consciousness, and well known thought experiments, and the issues they raise.

Search for a plausible NCC. Definition, proposals, argumentation for the possibility of its existence.

The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.

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

Listing of useful links and their brief descriptions.

Publication by Stuart R Hameroff on biomolecular consciousness and nanotechnology.

Consciousness as a mongrel concept by Ned Block.

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.

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.

Chalmers is a leading figure in the philosophy of consciousness, and this page gives access not only to his own writings, but his extensive annotated bibliography of philosophy of mind and his directory of hundreds of online papers on consciousness and related topics by other people.

Short online 'book' (or long article) by Johannes Dressler (English translation of the original German).

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

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.

Analyses the inconsistencies of the materialistic view of man and mind on the basis of the present scientific knowledge about brain and matter.

Studies of consciousness, intelligence and autism. From neuroscientist Rodney Cotterill.