The Mediations of Consciousness

Introduction: From the Brain to General Intellect: Commentary on the Mediations of Consciousness

Alberto López Cuenca

There is an overwhelming amount of literature about the nature of consciousness and its riddles. Yet one must necessarily work through this literature if one is interested in the philosophical and scientific details of the related debates. However, this means that this short book can be neither an exhaustive introduction nor a developed stance on 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. Something of that kind can be found elsewhere.1 As far as these issues are concerned, this Living Book is more of a call to pay attention to the current ways in which some of the scientific discussions about consciousness are framed. (more...)



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

Investigation of the Cerebral Blood Flow of an Omani Man with Supposed ‘Spirit Possession’ Associated with an Altered Mental State: A Case Report


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

Xialei Zhang

The Emergence of Consciousness in the Quantum Universe


Mondendra Grover

The Quantum Computing Conscious Universe and the Extended Deep Ecology Hypothesis: Implications for Medicine, Agriculture and Technology

Axel A. Randrup

Animal Mind as Approached by the Transpersonal: Notion of Collective Conscious Experience


Appendix: The varieties of conscious experience

David W. Hill

Reflections on Leaving Facebook


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