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[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000066 Exploring the “Global Workspace” of Consciousness] | [http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000066 Exploring the “Global Workspace” of Consciousness] | ||
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[http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/resources/issue3/Perspectives_volumeIII_SearleMaterialismMindBody.pdf Searle, Materialism, and the Mind-Body Problem] | [http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/resources/issue3/Perspectives_volumeIII_SearleMaterialismMindBody.pdf Searle, Materialism, and the Mind-Body Problem] | ||
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[http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/pdf/1752-1947-3-9325.pdf Investigation of the cerebral blood flow of an Omani man with supposed ‘spirit possession’ associated with an altered mental state: a case report] | |||
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[http://www.nonlinearbiomedphys.com/content/pdf/1753-4631-4-S1-S9.pdf On consciousness, resting state fMRI, and neurodynamics] | |||
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[http://www.nonlinearbiomedphys.com/content/pdf/1753-4631-1-3.pdf Graph theoretical analysis of complex networks in the brain] <br> | |||
<br> '''Extended Consciousness''' | <br> '''Extended Consciousness''' |
Revision as of 14:31, 4 September 2011
Introduction: From Brain to general Intellect: Commentary on the Mediations of Consciousness
Alberto López Cuenca
There is enough of it. There is an overwhelming amount of literature about the nature of consciousness and its riddles. One must necessarily go through it if interested in the philosophical and scientific details of these debates. This short book then cannot purport to be neither an exhaustive introduction nor a developed stance on the discussions about the issue of consciousness –the problem of the mind-body relationship, the reduction of mental states to brain states or the attribution of consciousness to single individuals. That can be found somewhere else. What this book might be regarding these debates is a call to pay attention to the current ways in which some of the scientific discussions about consciousness are framed. Continue
The Riddle of Consciousness
Max Velmans
How to define Consciousness --And how not to define Consciousness
Richard Robinson
Exploring the “Global Workspace” of Consciousness
Erik Sorem
Searle, Materialism, and the Mind-Body Problem
Representing Consciousness
Amr A Guenedi, Ala'Alddin Al Hussaini, Yousif A Obeid, Samir Hussain, Faisal Al-Azri and Samir Al-Adawi
Arvid Lundervold
On consciousness, resting state fMRI, and neurodynamics
Cornelis J. Stam & Jaap C. Reijneveld
Graph theoretical analysis of complex networks in the brain
Extended Consciousness
X. Zhang, The Emergence of Consciousness in the Quantum Universe
M. Grover, The Quantum Computing Conscious Universe and the Extended Deep Ecology Hypothesis: Implications for Medicine, Agriculture and Technology
A. Randrup, Animal Mind as Approached by the Transpersonal: Notion of Collective Conscious Experience
Appendix: The varieties of conscious experience
D. W. Hill, Reflections on Leaving Facebook