The Mediations of Consciousness

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

M. Velmans, "How to define Consciousness --And how not to define Consciousness"

R. Robinson, "Exploring the “Global Workspace” of Consciousness"

E. Sorem, "Searle, Materialism, and the Mind-Body Problem"


Representing Consciousness

A. A. Guenedi et al., Investigation of the cerebral blood flow of an Omani man with supposed ‘spirit possession’ associated with an altered mental state: a case report

A. Lundervold, On consciousness, resting state fMRI, and neurodynamics

C. J. Stam & J. 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"


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