You said:
"Newtonian physics cannot explain quantum phenomina. Period."
I responded:
You keep missing the point. I never said Newtonian Physics could explain quantum phenomena. I said: "Newtonian physics has not changed. It is doing quite well. Quantum physics is simply another lens for examination of our physical world..."
Now you change to:
"You miss the point... Newtonian physics has limitations"
You just don't seem to understand what is being talked about. Newtonian Physics does not inform quantum physics because they are DIFFERENT branches of physics. They are different lenses for observing our world, if you will (this is figuratively speaking, DAK, so please don't hyperventilate). The Ptolemaic system is not scientifically valid. The laws of motion and gravity, on the other hand, are absolutely scientific and valid. At best, Ptolemaic theories inform the history of science--not science itself. Saying that Newtonian Physics has limitations is just mouthing inanities. All physics and all scientific disciplines have limitations. All knowledge is imperfect and unfinished.
"sure Newtonian laws "work" and will be "encompassed" by the new physics"
There is no scientific basis for that statement, and there is nothing to indicate that such an event is to be anticipated. Indeed, it would be interesting to hear what you think you are trying to say.
"So I take it the origninal point can be dropped"
You've drifted off into some private fugue state again. Nobody can follow you when you babble about babbling and then babble about what you were babbling about. Your ability to focus on topic seems to last about as long as the half life of carbon 10. Perhaps that is what your brain is made of! I hope that gives you a laugh! Ha! Ha!
"lack of "scientific proof" means something is false"
You misunderstand. Nobody is suggesting that spirits do not exist on the basis that science has no evidence or indication that they do. Rather, it is only being said that spirits are not evidenced by science. They might exist, surely; but on what basis would a rational person find their existence a compelling belief?
"Newtonian physics does'nt deal with it AT ALL... mind has been separated from scientific study of "stuff" for a long time:"
Scientists have studied the mind for centuries. Admittedly, the standards of science have improved considerably as tools, techniques, and knowledge have flourished--and as printing has allowed it to be shared, studied, and added to. Just as Aristotle's "scientific" studies of biology were limited by crude axioms and flawed premises--so too was the study of mind.
Descartes was a scientist as well as a philosopher but his separation of mind and brain and his hypothesis that they "interacted" through the pineal gland affords us real amusement today!
Nowadays, of course, there are numerous scientific societies and organizations dedicated to research on how brain states produce what we term experience, self consciousness, awareness, or mind.
Here are several hundred articles that look scientifically at neurobiology and how the mind is being understood by scientists.
consc.net
Part 3 of Online papers on consciousness
Part 1: Philosophy of consiousness
Part 2: Other philosophy of mind
Part 3: Science of Consciousness
TABLE OF CONTENTS [574 papers]
General [43 papers]
Neuroscience of visual consciousness [47]
Consciousness and neuroscience [52]
Cognitive models of consciousness [36]
Unconscious perception [20]
Implicit memory [15]
Implicit learning [10]
Change blindness and inattentional blindness [59]
Visual consciousness (misc) [19]
Attention and consciousness [16]
Self-consciousness and metacognition [23]
Consciousness in the history of psychology [33]
Consciousness and time [14]
Animal consciousness [29]
Consciousness and artificial intelligence [15]
Consciousness and physics [38]
Phenomenology [40]
Methodology [25]
Miscellaneous [28]
Science of Consciousness: General
Bernard Baars, A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
Bernard Baars, A thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness (and comments by Allen, Bringsjord, Davis, Mangan, Newman, Velmans, and reply)
Bernard Baars, Thomas Ramsoy, and Stephen Laureys, Brain, conscious experience, and the observing self (and commentary by Thomas Clark and reply)
Bernard Baars, Understanding subjectivity: Global workspace theory and the resurrection of the observing self (and comments)
Susan Blackmore, The psychology of consciousness
Susan Blackmore, There is no stream of consciousness
Ned Block, Paradox and cross-purposes in recent work on consciousness
David Chalmers, How can we construct a science of consciousness?
Patricia Churchland, What should we expect from a theory of consciousness?
Francis Crick and Christof Koch, A framework for consciousness (plus comments by Baars, Clark, Franklin, Hales, Merker, Mutalik, and Taylor)
Francis Crick and Christof Koch, The problem of consciousness
Francis Crick and Christof Koch, The unconscious homunculus
Daniel Dennett, Are we explaining consciousness yet?
Daniel Dennett, The fantasy of first-person science
Valerie Hardcastle, Locating Consciousness (precis) (and comments by Laakso, Levine, Garfield, and replies)
Anthony Jack & Tim Shallice, Introspective physicalism as an approach to the science of consciousness
Stephen Jones, The Brain Project
George Mandler, Consciousness redux
Alain Morin, Levels of consciousness
Antti Revonsuo, Science of consciousness: Past, present, future
John Searle, Consciousness
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Consciousness: A natural history
Neuroscience of Visual Consciousness
Paul Azzopardi & Alan Cowey, Is blindsight like normal, near-threshold vision?
Moshe Bar & Irving Biederman, Localizing the cortical region mediating visual awareness of object identity
Diane Beck, Geraint Rees, Christopher Frith, and Nilli Lavie, Neural correlates of change detection and change blindness
Jon Driver, Patrick Vuilleumier, Martin Eimer, & Geraint Rees, fMRI and ERP correlates of conscious and unconscious vision in parietal extinction patients
Andreas Engel, Pascal Fries, Pieter Roelfsema, Peter Konig, & Wolf Singer, Temporal binding, binocular rivalry, and consciousness (and discussion)
Pascal Fries, Pieter Roelfsema, Andreas Engel, Peter Konig, & Wolf Singer, Synchronization of oscillatory responses in visual cortex correlates with perception in interocular rivalry
Charles M. Gray & Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco, Stimulus-dependent neuronal oscillations and local synchonization in striate cortex of the alert cat
Nancy Kanwisher, Neural events and perceptual awareness
Sabine Kastner & Leslie Ungerleider, Mechanisms of visual attention in the human cortex
Christof Koch, Towards the neuronal substrate of visual consciousness
Ilona Kovacs, Thomas Papathomas, Ming Yang, & Akos Feher, When the brain changes its mind: Interocular grouping during binocular rivalry
Gabriel Kreiman, Itzhak Fried, & Christof Koch, Single-neuron correlates of subjective vision in the human medial temporal lobe
David Leopold, Brain mechanisms of visual awareness: Using perceptual ambiguity to investigate the neural basis of image segmentatin and grouping
David Leopold, Motion perception: Read my LIP
David Leopold and Nikos Logothetis, Multistable phenomena: Changing views in perception
Stephen Luck, Leonardo Chelazzi, Steven Hillyard, & Robert Desimone, Neural mechanisms of spatial selective attention in areas V1, V2, and V4 of macaque visual cortex
Steven Luck & Michelle Ford, On the role of selective attention in visual perception
Erik Lumer & Geraint Rees, Covariation of activity in visual and prefrontal cortex associated with subjective visual perception
Erik Lumer, K.J. Friston, & Geraint Rees, Neural correlates of perceptual rivalry in the human brain
David Milner and Melvyn Goodale, The visual brain in action (precis) (and commentaries by Bridgeman, Cisek and Turgeon, Decety, Gallese et al, Jeannerod, Mattingley, McGeorge, Turnbull)
Stephen L. Macknik & Michael M. Haglund, Optical images of visible and invisible percepts in the primary visual cortex of primates
Geraint Rees, Neuroimaging of visual awareness in patients and normal subjects
Geraint Rees, Seeing is not perceiving
Geraint Rees, Gabriel Kreiman, & Christof Koch, Neural correlates of consciousness in humans
Geraint Rees & Nilli Lavie, What can functional imaging reveal about the role of attention in visual awareness?
Geraint Rees, Ewa Wojcuilik, Karen Clarke, Masud Husain, Chris Frith, John Driver, Neural correlates of conscious and unconscious vision in parietal extinction
Geraint Rees, Ewa Wojcuilik, Karen Clarke, Masud Husain, Chris Frith, John Driver, Unconscious activation of visual cortex in the damaged right hemisphere of a parietal patient with extinction
A. Sahraie, L. Weiskrantz, J.L. Barbur, et al, Pattern of neuronal activity associated with conscious and unconscious processing of visual signals
D.L. Sheinberg & N. Logothetis, The role of temporal cortical areas in perceptual organization
John Skoyles, Another variety of vision
R. Srinivasan, D.P. Russell, G.M. Edelman, & G. Tononi, Increased synchronization of neuromagnetic responses during conscious perception"
Frank Tong, Competing theories of binocular rivalry: A possible resolution
Frank Tong, Out-of-body experiences: From Penfield to present
Frank Tong, Primary visual cortex and visual awareness
Frank Tong, Ken Nakayama, Thomas Vaughan, & Nancy Kanwisher, Bincular rivalry and visual awareness in human extrastriate cortex
G. Tononi, R. Srinivasan, D.P. Russell, & G.M. Edelman, Investigating neural correlates of conscious perception by frequency-tagged neuromagnetic responses
Marius Usher & Nick Donnelly, Visual synchrony affects binding and segmentation in perception
S. Zeki, S. Aglioti, D. McKeefry, & G. Berlucchi, The neurological basis of conscious color perception in a blind patient
Consciousness and Neuroscience, Misc
Giorgio Ascoli, The complex link between neuroanatomy and consciousness
Bernard Baars, The neural basis of conscious experience
Ned Block, How to find the neural correlate of consciousness
Massimo Bondi & Manuele Bondi, The role of synaptic junctions in the identification of human consciousness
David Chalmers, On the search for the neural correlate of consciousness
David Chalmers, What is a neural correlate of consciousness?
Patricia Churchland, Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness?
William Clancey, The biology of consciousness: Comparative review of Rosenfield and Edelman
Axel Cleeremans & John-Dylan Haynes, Correlating consciousness: A view from empirical science
Rodney Cotterill, On the mechanism of consciousness
Rodney Cotterill, On the neural correlates of consciousness
Rodney Cotterill, Prediction and internal feedback in conscious perception
Francis Crick and Christof Koch, Consciousness and neuroscience
Francis Crick and Christof Koch, Why neuroscience may be able to explain consciousness
John C. Eccles, The effect of silent thinking on the cerebral cortex
Jeffrey Gray, The contents of consciousness: A neuropsychological conjecture
Susan Greenfield, Neural assemblies and consciousness
Rudolf Hernegger, Changes of paradigm in consciousness research
J. Allan Hobson, Edward Pace-Schott, & Robert Stickgold, Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states
Susan Hurley & Alva Noë, Neural plasticity and consciousness (comments: Ned Block and reply, also reply to Jeffrey Gray)
Fahmeed Hyder, Elizabeth Phelps, Robert Shulman, et al, "Willed action": A functional MRI study of the human prefrontal cortex during a sensorimitor task
Gene Johnson, Pathways to consciousness: The thalamus as the brain's switching center
Stephen Jones, Introduction to the physiology of ordinary consciousness
James Newman, Thalamocortical foundations of conscious experience (and discussion)
Alva Noë & Kevin O'Regan, On the brain-basis of visual consciousnes: A sensorimotor account
Alva Noë & Evan Thompson, Are there neural correlates of consciousness? (with replies by Freeman, Hardcastle, Haynes & Rees, Hohwy and Frith, Jack and Prinz, McLaughlin and Bartlett, Metzinger, Myin, Roy, van Gulick, plus reply to commentators)
C. Portas, G. Rees, A Howseman, O. Josephs, R. Turner, & C.D. Frith, A specific role for the thalamus in mediating the interaction of attention and arousal in humans
Geraint Rees, Gabriel Kreiman, & Christof Koch, Neural correlates of consciousness in humans
John Smythies, The biochemical basis of coma
Sean Spence, Free will in the light of neuropsychiatry (and replies)
Roger Sperry, Neurology and the mind-brain problem
Roger Sperry, Psychobiology and vice versa
Roger Sperry, Brain bisection and mechanisms of consciousness
Roger Sperry, Forebrain commissurotomy and conscious awareness
Roger Sperry, Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness
Ruediger Vaas, Why neural correlates of consciousness are fine, but not enough
Cognitive Models of Consciousness
Bernard Baars, In the theatre of consciousness
Bernard Baars, The conscious access hypothesis: Origins and recent evidence
Bernard Baars & Stan Franklin, How conscious experience and working memory interact
Renate Bartsch, Consciousness at the Cutting Edge between World and Brain
Myles Bogner, Uma Ramamurthy, & Stan Franklin, Consciousness and conceptual learning in a socially situated agent
Bruce Bridgeman, On the evolution of consciousness and language (and replies)
Selmer Bringsjord, Explaining phi without Dennett's exotica: Good ol' computation suffices
William H. Calvin, Competing for consciousness: A Darwinian mechanism at an appropriate level of explanation
Fu Chang, A theory of consciousness
Rodney Cotterill, Navigation, consciousness, and the body/mind problem
Rodney Cotterill, On the unity of conscious experience
Stanislas Dehaene, Michel Kerszberg, and Jean-Pierre Changeux, A neuronal model of a global workspace in effortful cognitive tasks
Philip Dorrell, Computation vs. feelings and the production/judgment model
Stan Franklin, Conscious software: A computational view of mind
Stan Franklin, Action selection and language generation in "conscious" software agents
Stan Franklin and Art Graesser, A software agent model of consciousness
Stevan Harnad, Consciousness: An afterthought
Steven Lehar, Gestalt isomorphism and the primacy of the subjective conscious experience: A gestalt bubble model
Don Mathis & Michael Mozer, On the computational utility of consciousness
Josh McDermott, Global workspace theory: Consciousness explained?
George McKee, The engine of awareness: Autonomous synchronous representations
Thomas Metzinger, Faster than thought: Holism, homogeneity, and temporal coding(and comments)
Erik Mueller & Michael Dyer, Towards a computational theory of human daydreaming
Shaun Nichols & Stephen Stich, Reading one's own mind: A cognitive theory of self-awareness
Patricia Churchland, Brainshy: Non-neural theories of conscious experience
Gerard O'Brien & Jon Opie, A connectionist theory of phenomenal experience (and reply to commentators)
Gerard O'Brien & Jon Opie, A defense of Cartesian materialism
Gerard O'Brien & Jon Opie, Cognitive science and phenomenal consciousness: A dilemma, and how to avoid it
Gerard O'Brien & Jon Opie, Connectionist vehicles, structural resemblance, and the phenomenal mind
Ruadhan O'Flanagan, Underlying mechanisms of consciousness
John Taylor, Modeling consciousness
John Taylor, The relational mind
John Taylor, Constructing the relational mind
Christoph von der Malsburg, The coherence definition of consciousness
Unconscious Perception
Barry Beyerstein & Eric Eich, Subliminal self-help tapes: Promises, promises...
Robert Dell'Acqua & Jonathan Grainger, Unconscious semantic priming from pictures
Sean Draine & Anthony Greenwald, Replicable unconscious semantic priming (and Reingold and Merikle's commentary)
Fred Dretske, Perception without awareness
Ken Forster, The pros and cons of masked priming
S. Kouider & E. Dupoux, A functional disconnection between spoken and visual word recognition: Evidence from unconscious priming
Pawel Lewicki, Thomas Hill, & Maria Czyzewska, Nonconscious acquisition of information
Don Mathis & Michael Mozer, Conscious and unconscious perception: A computational theory
Philip Merikle & Meredyth Daneman, Psychological investigations of unconscious perception
Philip Merikle & Meredyth Daneman, Memory for unconsciously perceived events: Evidence from anesthetized patients
Philip Merikle & Eyal Reingold, Recognition and lexical decision without detection: Unconscious perception?
Philip Merikle & Eyal Reingold, Measuring unconscious perceptual processes
Timothy Moore, Subliminal self-help auditory tapes: An empirical test of perceptual consequences
M.J. Morgan, A.J.S. Mason, & J.A. Solomon, "Blindsight" in normal subjects?
Thomas Ramsoy & Morten Overgaard, Introspection and subliminal perception
Eyal Reingold & Philip Merikle, Using direct and indirect measures to study perception without awareness
Eyal Reingold & Philip Merikle, In the inter-related of theory and measurement in the study of unconscious processes
John Taylor, Breakthrough to awareness
Max Velmans, When perception becomes conscious
Implicit Memory
Sean Draine, Anthony Greenwald, & Mahzarin Banaji, Modeling unconscious gender bias in fame judgments.
Emrah Duzel, Andrew Yonelinas, Endel Tulving, et al, Event-related brain potential correlates of two states of conscious awareness in memory
Andrew Mayes, Patricia Gooding, & Rob van Eijk, A new theoretical framework for explicit and implicit memory
Gail McKoon & Roger Ratcliff, How should implicit memory phenomena be modeled?
Philip Merikle & Eyal Reingold, Comparing direct (explicit) to indirect (implicit) measures to study unconscious memory
Roger Ratcliff & Gail McKoon, Bias effects in implicit memory tasks
Roger Ratcliff, Trish Van Zandt, & Gail McKoon, Two factor theory, single process theories, and recognition memory
Eyal Reingold & Jeffrey Toth, Process dissociations versus task dissociations: A controversy in progress
Daniel Schacter, Illusory memories: A cognitive neuroscience analysis
Larry Squire & Stuart Zola, Structure and function of declarative and nondeclarative memory systems
Patrice Terrier, Re-examining the role of consistency
R.F. Thompson & J.J. Kim, Memory systems in the brain and the localization of a memory
Jeffrey Toth, Eyal Reingold, & Larry Jacoby, Toward a redefinition of implicit memory: Process dissociations following elaborative processing and self-generation
Jeffrey Toth, Eyal Reingold, & Larry Jacoby, A response to Graf and Komamatsu's critique of the process-dossociation procedure: When is caution necessary?
Daniel Willingham & Laura Preuss, The death of implicit memory
Implicit Learning
Maud Boyer, Arnaud Destrebecqz, and Axel Cleeremans, The serial reaction task: Learning without knowing, or knowing without learning?
Axel Cleeremans, Principles for implicit learning
Axel Cleeremans, Implicit sequence learning: The truth is in the details
Axel Cleeremans, Arnaud Destrebecqz, & Maud Boyer, Implicit learning: News from the front
Tim Curran, On the neural mechanisms of sequence learning
Zoltan Dienes & Josef Perner, A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge
Georgina Jackson & Stephen Jackson, Do measures of explicit learning actually measure what is being learnt in the serial reaction time task? (and commentary)
Luis Jiménez, Castor Méndez, & Axel Cleeremans, Comparing direct and indirect measures of implicit learning
David Shanks & Mark St. John, Characteristics of dissociable human learning systems
Change Blindness and Inattentional Blindness
Eric Austen and James Enns, Change detection: Paying attention to detail
Bonnie Angelone, Dan Levin, & Daniel Simons, The relationship between change detection and recognition of centrally attended objects in motion pictures
Susan Blackmore, The grand illusion: Why consciousness exists only when you look for it
Susan Blackmore, Gavin Brelstaff, Kay Nelson, & Tom Troscianko, Is the richness of our visual world an illusion? Trans-saccadic memory for complex scenes
Jochen Braun, Inattentional blindness: It's great but not necessarily about attention
Paul Coates, Wilfrid Sellars, perceptual consciousness and theories of attention
Jonathan Cohen, The grand grand illusion illusion
Daniel Dennett, How could I be wrong? How wrong could I be?
Donelson Dulany, Inattentional awareness
Diego Fernandez-Duque and Ian Thornton, Explicit mechanisms do not account for implicat localization and identification of change: An empirical reply to Mitroff et al
Diego Fernandez-Duque and Ian Thornton, Change detection without awareness: Do explicit reports underestimate the representation of change
Diego Fernandez-Duque, Giordana Grossi, Ian Thornton, and Helen Neville, Representation of change: Separate electrophysiological markers of attention, awareness, and implicit processing
Steve Franconeri & Daniel Simons, Moving and looming stimuli capture attention
Steve Franconeri, Daniel Simons, & J. Junge, Searching for stimulus-driven shifts of attention
Dan Levin, Daniel Simons, Bonnie Angelone, & Christopher Chabris, Memory for centrally attended changing objects in an incidental real-world change detection paradigm
Daniel Levin, Nausheen Momen, Sarah Drivdahl, & Daniel Simons, Change blindness blindness: The metacognitive error of overestimating change-detection ability
Arien Mack and Irvin Rock, Inattentional blindness: An overview (and commentaries by Braun, Dulany, Moore, Most et al, Tzelgov, Humphreys, Noe & O'Regan, Rensink, and reply)
Stephen Mitroff & Daniel Simons, Changes are not localized before they are explicitly detected
Stephen Mitroff, Daniel Simons, & Steven Franconeri, The siren song of implicit change detection
Steve Mitroff, Daniel Simons, & Daniel Levin, Nothing compares 2 views: Change blindness results from failures to compare retained information
S. Most, D. Simons, B. Scholl, & C. Chabris, Sustained inattentional blindness: The role of location in the detection of unexpected dynamic events
Steve Most, Brian Scholl, E. Clifford, & Daniel Simons, What you see is what you set: Sustained inattentional blindness and the capture of awareness
Cathleen Moore, Inattentional blindness: Perception or memory and what does it matter?
Alva Noë, Experience and the active mind
Alva Noë, Is the visual world a grand illusion?
Alva Noë and Evan Thompson, Beyond the grand illusion: What change blindness really teaches us about vision
Alva Noë and Kevin O'Regan, Perception, attention, and the grand illusion
Kevin O'Regan, H. Deubel, J.J. Clark, & R.A. Rensink, Picture changes during blinks: Looking without seeing and seeing without looking
Kevin O'Regan, Ronald Rensink, & James Clark, Change blindness as a result of mudsplashes
G. Rees, C. Russell, C.D. Frith, & J. Driver, Inattentional blindness versus inattentional amnesia for fixated but ignored words
Ronald Rensink, When good observers go bad: Change blindness, inattentional blindness, and visual experience
Ronald Rensink, Change detection
Ronald Rensink, The dynamic representation of scenes
Ronald Rensink, Seeing, sensing, and scrutinizing
Ronald Rensink, Change blindness: Implications for the nature of visual attention
Ronald Rensink, Visual search for change: A probe into the nature of attentional processing
Ronald Rensink, Kevin O'Regan, and James Clark, On failures to detect changes in scenes across brief interruptions
Ronald Rensink, Kevin O'Regan, and James Clark, To see or not to see: The need for attention to perceive changes in scenes
Daniel Simons, Attentional capture and inattentional blindness
Daniel Simons, Current approaches to change blindness
Daniel Simons & Christopher Chabris, Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events
Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris, & Tatiana Schnur, Evidence for preserved representations in change blindness
Daniel Simons, Steven Franconeri, & Rebecca Reimer, Change blindness in the absence of a visual disruption
Daniel Simons & Daniel Levin, Change blindness
Daniel Simons, Steve Mitroff, & Steve Franconeri, Scene perception: What we can learn from visual integration and change detection
Ian Thornton and Diego Fernandez-Duque, Converging evidence for the detection of change without awareness
Ian Thornton and Diego Fernandez-Duque, An implicit measure of undetected change
Jochen Triesch, Dana Ballard, Mary Hayhoe, Brian Sullivan, What you see is what you need
Jeremy Wolfe, Inattentional amnesia
Visual Consciousness (Misc.)
Paul Bach-y-Rita, Mitchell Tyler, & Kurt Kaczamarek, Seeing with the brain
Austen Clark, Some logical features of feature integration
Daniel Dennett, Filling in vs. finding out: A ubiquitous confusion in cognitive science
Rick Grush, Perception, imagery, and the sensorimotor loop
David Leopold, Visual perception: Shaping what we see
David Leopold, Melanie Wilke, Alexander Maier, and Nikos Logothetis, Stable perception of visually ambiguous patterns
Kevin O'Regan, Solving the "real" mysteries of visual perception: The world as an outside memory
Kevin O'Regan, Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness
Kevin O'Regan & Alva Noë, A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness (and commentaries by Block, O'Brien & Opie, Thomas, and authors' response)
Kevin O'Regan & Alva Noë, What it is like to see: a sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience
Stephen Palmer, Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint
Luiz Pessoa, Evan Thompson, & Alva Noe, Finding out about filling in: A guide to perceptual completion for visual science and the philosophy of perception
Daniel Richardson & Michael Spivey, Representation, space and Hollywood Squares: Looking at things that aren't there anymore
Daniel Simons and Ron Rensink, Special issue on "Induced Failures of Visual Awareness"
Anne Treisman & Nancy Kanwisher, Perceiving visualy presented objects: Recognition, awareness, and modularity
Attention and Consciousness
Bernard Baars, Metaphors of consciousness and attention in the brain (and discussion)
Marvin Chun & Jeremy Wolfe, Visual attention
Diego Fernandez-Duque and Mark Johnson, Attention metaphors: How metaphors guide the cognitive psychology of attention
Massimo Grassia, Consciousness and perceptual attention: A methodological argument
Valerie Hardcastle, Attention versus consciousness: A distinction with a difference
David LaBerge, Defining awareness by the triangular circuit of attention (and commentaries and reply)
Liang Lou & Jing Chen, Attention and blind-spot phenomenology
Chris Mole, Attention is cognitive unison
John Taylor, An attention-based control model of consciousness
Rufin vanRullen and Christof Koch, Competition and selection during visual procesing of natural scenes and objects
Jeremy Wolfe, The level of attention: Mediating between the stimulus and perception
Jeremy Wolfe, The deployment of visual attention: Two surprises
Jeremy Wolfe, Visual attention
Wayne Wright, Visual stuff and active vision
Self-Consciousness and Metacognition
John Barresi, Extending self-consciousness into the future
Diego Fernandez-Duque, Jodie Baird, and Michael Posner, Executive attention and metacognitive regulation (and reply to commentaries)
Robert Kentridge and Charles Heywood, Metacognition and awareness
John McCarthy, Notes on self-awareness
Alain Morin, Inner speech and conscious experience
Alain Morin, On a relation between self-awareness and inner speech: Additional evidence from brain studies
Alain Morin, Self-talk and self-awareness: On the nature of the relation.
Alain Morin, Developing self-awareness with inner speech: Theoretical background, underlying mechanisms, and empirical evidence
Alain Morin, Characteristics of an effective internal dialogue in the acquisition of self-information
Alain Morin, Imagery and self-awareness: A theoretical note
Alain Morin, Levels of consciousness and self-awareness: A comparison and integration of various views
Alain Morin, A neurocognitive and socioecological model of self-awareness
Alain Morin, Self-awareness review part 1: Do you ‘self-reflect’ or ‘self-ruminate’?
Alain Morin, Self-awareness review part 2: Changing or escaping the self
Alain Morin, Right hemispheric self-awareness: A critical assessment
Alain Morin, The split-brain debate revisited: On the importance of language and self-recognition for right hemispheric consciousness
Alain Morin & James Everett, Inner speech as a mediator of self-awareness, self-consciousness, and self-knowledge: An hypothesis
Alain Morin & James Everett, Self-awareness and ‘introspective’ private speech in 6-year-old children
Alain Morin & James Everett, Inner speech as a mediator of self-awareness, self-consciousness, and self-knowledge: An hypothesis
David Rosenthal, Consciousness and metacognition (and reply to commentators)
Tony Whetstone and Mark Cross, Control of conscious contents in directed forgetting and thought supporession
Consciousness in the History of Psychology
William Adams, Introspectionism reconsidered
James Rowland Angell, The province of functional psychology
James Mark Baldwin, Consciousness and evolution
Knight Dunlap, The case against introspection
Gustav Fechner, The measurement of sensation
Sigmund Freud, The structure of the unconscious
Willard Gore, Image or sensation?
Hermann Helmholtz, The facts of perception
William James, The stream of consciousness
Kurt Koffka, Perception: An introduction to the gestalt theory (with Christopher Green's introduction)
Wolfgang Kohler, Gestalt psychology today
Wolfgang Kohler, An old pseudoproblem
George Trumbull Ladd, Consciousness and evolution
Karl Lashley, The behavioristic interpretation of consciousness
Wilfrid Lay, Organic images
Ernst Mach, The analysis of sensations
Teed Rockwell, The effects of atomistic ontology on the history of psychology
Eric Schwitzgebel, Introspective training: Reflections on Titchener's lab manual
Eric Schwitzgebel, Difference tone training: A demonstration adapted from Titchener's experimental psychology
Roger Sperry, In search of psyche
Eugene Taylor & Robert Wozniak, Pure experience: The response to William James
Edward L. Thorndike, The study of consciousness and the study of behavior
E.B. Titchener, Brentano and Wundt: Empirical and experimental psychology
E.B. Titchener, The postulates of a structural psychology
E.B. Titchener, The schema of introspection
Margaret Washburn, Introspection as an objective method
John B. Watson, Psychology as the behaviorist views it (and Titchener's comment)
Max Wertheimer, Gestalt theory
Max Wertheimer, Laws of organization in perceptual forms
Robert H. Wozniak, Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James
Wilhelm Wundt, Outlines of Psychology
Consciousness and Time
Daniel Dennett & Marcel Kinsbourne, Time and the observer: The where and when of consciousness in the brain (and reply to commentators)
Celia Green & Grant Gillett, Are mental events preceded by their physical cases?
Rick Grush, Brain time and phenomenological time
Ted Honderich, Is the mind ahead of the brain? Benjamin Libet's evidence examined
Ted Honderich, Is the mind ahead of the brain? Rejoinder to Benjamin Libet
Ted Honderich, On Benjamin Libet: Is the mind ahead of the brain? Behind it?
Sean Kelly, On time and truth
Sean Kelly, Time and experience
Peter Lynds, Subjective perception of time and a progressive present moment: The neurobiological key to unlocking consciousness
David Rosenthal, Multiple drafts and facts of the matter
David Rosenthal, Time and consciousness
Francisco Varela, The specious present: A neurophenomenology of time consciousness
Fred Alan Wolf, The timing of conscious experience: A causality-violating interpretation
Animal Consciousness
Colin Allen, Animal consciousness
Colin Allen, Animal pain
Colin Allen & Marc Bekoff, Species of Mind
Peter Carruthers, On being simple minded
Peter Carruthers, Why the question of animal consciousness might not matter very much
Peter Carruthers, Animal subjectivity (and commentaries by Browne, Cavalieri and Miller, Krause and Burghardt, Lurz, Lycan, Lyvers, Robinson, Saidel, Shapiro, Weisberg, and reply)
Peter Carruthers,
Peter Carruthers, Suffering without subjectivity
Daniel Dennett, Animal consciousness: What matters and why
Matthew Elton, Human and animal consciousness
Robert Hanna, What is it like to be a bat in pain? Kinds of animal minds and the moral comparison principle
Thomas Huxley, On the hypothesis that animals are automata
Lisa Kretz, Peter Carruthers and brute experience: Descartes revisited
C. Lloyd Morgan, An Introduction to Comparative Psychology
Daniel Povinelli, Are animals self-aware? Maybe not
Peter Singer, Do animals feel pain?
Ruud van den Bos, General organizational principles of the brain as the key to the study of animal consciousness
Peter Walling and Kenneth Hicks, Dimensions of Consciousness
Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence
William Adams, Intersubjective transparency and artificial consciousness
Murat Aydede & Guven Guzeldere, Consciousness, intentionality, and intelligence: Some foundational issues for artificial intelligence
William Bechtel, Consciousness: Perspectives from symbolic and connectionist AI
Susan Blackmore, Consciousness in meme machines
Susan Blackmore, The case of the mysterious mind (review of Dan Lloyd)
Selmer Bringsjord, What robots can and can't be (and replies)
Scott Brockmaier, Computational architecture and the creation of consciousness
Daniel Dennett, The practical requirements for making a conscious robot
Daniel Dennett, Consciousness in human and robot minds
Inman Harvey, Evolving robot consciousness: The easy problems and the rest
John McCarthy, Making robots conscious of their mental states
Marvin Minsky, Conscious machines
Mark Sharlow, Can machines have first-person properties?
Aaron Sloman, A systems approach to consciousness
Consciousness and Physics
Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, & Liane Gabora, Intrinsic contextuality as the crux of consciousness
Bernard Baars, Can physics provide a theory of consciousness?
Erhard Bieberich, In search of a neuronal substrate of the human mind: New concepts from "topological neurochemistry"
Erhard Bieberich, Structure in human consciousness: A fractal approach to the topology of the self perceiving an outer world in an inner space
David Bohm, A new theory of the relationship between mind and matter
Jeremy Butterfield, Quantum curioisities of psychophysics
Alex Byrne & Ned Hall, Chalmers on consciousness and quantum mechanics
C. J. S. Clarke, The nonlocality of mind
Brian Flanagan, Are perceptual fields quantum fields?
Gordon Globus, Quantum consciousness is cybernetic
Amit Goswami, The hard questions: View from a science of consciousness
Stuart Hameroff, Consciousness, the brain, and spacetime geometry
Stuart Hameroff, "Funda-mentality": Is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?
Stuart Hameroff, Did consciousness cause the Cambrian evolutionary explosion?
Stuart Hameroff, More neural than thou (reply to Churchland)
Stuart Hameroff, Quantum computation in brain microtubules
Stuart Hameroff & Roger Penrose, Conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections
Stuart Hameroff & Roger Penrose, Orchestrated reduction of quantum coherence in brain microtubules: A model for consciousness
Stuart Hameroff & Alwyn Scott, A Sonoran afternoon: Dialogue on quantum mechanics and consciousness
Stanley Klein, Is quantum mechanics relevant to understanding consciousness?
Kirk Ludwig, Why the difference between quantum and classical mechanics is irrelevant to the mind-body problem
Ulrich Morhhoff, Quantum mechanics and consciousness: Fact and fiction
Gregory Mulhauser, On the end of a quantum mechanical romance
Don Page, Attaching theories of consciousness to Bohmian quantum mechanics
Don Page, Information loss in black holes and/or conscious beings?
Don Page, Mindless sensationalisn: A quantum framework for consciousness
Don Page, Sensible quantum mechanics: Are probabilities only in the mind?
Alfredo Pereira, The quantum mind/classical brain problem
Osvaldo Pessoa, What is an essentially quantum mechanical effect?
Gao Shan, Quantum collapse, consciousness and superluminal communication
Quentin Smith, Why cognitive scientists cannot ignore quantum mechanics
Henry Stapp, Chance, choice, and consciousness: A causal quantum theory of the mind/brain
Henry Stapp, Science of consciousness and the hard problem
Henry Stapp, The hard problem: A quantum approach
Henry Stapp, Why classical mechanics cannot naturally accommodate consciousness but quantum mechanics can
Henry Stapp, Whiteheadian process and the quantum theory of mind
Victor Stenger, The myth of quantum consciousness
Ruediger Vaas, Why quantum correlates of consciousness are fine, but not enough
Phenomenology
Henk Barendregt, Buddhist phenomenology (and part 2)
Henk Barendregt, The Abidhamma model of consciousness and its consequences
John Barresi, Intentionality, consciousness and intentional relations: From constitutive phenomenology to cognitive science
Steven Brown, Beyond the fringe: James, Gurwitsch, and the conscious horizon
Steven Brown, Tip-of-the-tongue phenomena: An introductory phenomenological analysis
Jonathan Cole, Natalie Depraz, & Shaun Gallagher, Unity and disunity in bodily awareness: Phenomenology and neuroscience
Natalie Depraz, Francisco Varela, and Pierre Vermersch, The gesture of awareness: An account of its structural dynamics
Hubert Dreyfus, A phenomenology of skill acquisition as the basis for a Merleau-Pontian nonrepresentational cognitive science
Hubert Dreyfus, Overcoming the myth of the mental: How philosophers can profit from the phenomenology of everyday expertise
Hubert Dreyfus, The primacy of phenomenology over logical analysis: A critique of Searle
Hubert Dreyfus, The current relevance of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment
Hubert Dreyfus, Intelligence without representation: Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and scientific explanation (and commentaries)
Robert Forman, What does mysticism have to teach us about consciousness?
Shaun Gallagher, Mutual enlightenment: Recent phenomenology in cognitive science
Shaun Gallagher, Phenomenology and neurophenomenology
Shaun Gallagher, Phenomenological and experimental research on embodied experience
Edmund Husserl, The way into phenomenological transcendental philosophy from psychology
Edmund Husserl, Pure phenomenology, its method, and its field of investigation
Sean Kelly, Merleau-Ponty on the body: The logic of motor intentional activity
Sean Kelly, Seeing things in Merleau-Ponty
Sean Kelly, Husserl and phenomenology
Steven Lehar, The dimensions of conscious experience: A quantitative phenomenology
Paul Livingston, Husserl and Schlick on the logical form of experience
Dan Lloyd, Functional MRI and the study of human consciousness
Bruce Mangan, Sensation's ghost: The nonsensory fringe of consciousness (and commentaries)
Wayne Martin, Bubbles and skulls: The phenomenological structure of self-consciousness in Dutch still-life painting
Ronald McIntyre and David Woodruff Smith, Husserl's theory of intentionality
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The structure of behavior
Alva Noë, Experience and experiment in art
Michael Polanyi, The structure of consciousness
Joel Smith, Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenological reduction
John Searle, Limits of phenomenology
Charles Tart, Consciousness: A psychological, transpersonal, and parapsychological approach
Evan Thompson, Empathy and conciousness
Evan Thompson, Alva Noe, & Luiz Pessoa, Perceptual completion: A case study in phenomenology and cognitive science
Tim van Gelder, Wooden iron? Husserlian phenomenology meets cognitive science
David Woodruff Smith, Phenomenology
Methodology
Bernard Baars, A thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness
Michel Bitbol, Science as if situation mattered
David Chalmers, First-person methods in the science of consciousness
David Chalmers, How can we construct a science of consciousness?
Daniel Dennett, The fantasy of first-person science
Daniel Dennett, Who's on first? Heterophenomenology explained
Steven Horst, Phenomenology and psychophysics
Piet Hut, Exploring actuality through experiment and experience
Anthony Jack and Andreas Roepstorff, Why trust the subject?
Anthony Jack and Andreas Roepstorff, Trust or interaction?
Anthony Jack and Tim Shallice, Introspective physicalism as an approach to the science of consciousness
Brian Josephson & Beverly Rubik, The challenge of consciousness research
Antoine Lutz, Neurophenomenology: How to combine subjective experience with brain evidence
Bruce MacLennan, The investigation of consciousness through phenomenology and neuroscience
Eddy Nahmias, Verbal reports on the contents of consciousness: Reconsidering introspectionist methodology
Jacob Needleman, Inner empiricism as a way to a science of consciousness
Greg Nixon, A hermeneutic objection: Language and the inner view
Morten Overgaard, The role of phenomenological reports in experiments on consciousness
Donald Price & Murat Aydede, The experimental use of introspection in the scientific study of pain
Eric Schwitzgebel, The unreliability of naive introspection
Francisco Varela, Neurophenomenology: A methodological remedy for the hard problem
Francisco Varela & Jonathan Shear, First-person methodologies: What, why, how?
Max Velmans, A reflexive science of consciousness
Max Velmans, Intersubjective science
Max Velmans, Heterophenomenology vs. critical phenomenology: A dialogue with Dan Dennett
Miscellaneous
Jorge Aveleira, Consciousness and reality: A stable-dynamic model based on Jungian psychology
Bernard Baars, A specific drug for consciousness?
Bernard Baars, Hysterical conversion, consciousness, and the brain
Susan Blackmore, Why psi tells us nothing about consciousness
Susan Blackmore, Lucid dreaming: Awake in your sleep?
Susan Blackmore, What can the paranormal teach us about consciousness ?
William Calvin, The Cerebral Code
William Calvin, The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness
Keith Chandler, The Mind Paradigm
Rodney Cotterill, Autism, intelligence, and consciousness
Richard Cytowic, Synesthesia: Phenomenology and neuropsychology (and comments)
Walter Freeman, Commentary on "The mystery of consciousness"
J. Scott Jordan, Consciousness on the edge: The intentional nature of experience
Stephen LaBerge, Lucid dreaming: Psychophysiological studies of consciousness during REM sleep
Jaron Lanier, Death: The skeleton key of consciousness studies?
Michael Lyvers, The neurochemistry of psychedelic experiences
Steve Mashalidis, Consciousness and education: A process perspective
Knut Nordby, Vision in a complete achromat: A personal account
Chris Nunn, A Nagelian neurology of consciousness
Antti Revonsuo and Katja Valli, Dreaming and consciousness: Testing the threat simulation theory of the function of dreaming
Jonathan Smallwood, Cultural consciousness as a good trick: An empirical framework
Keith Sutherland, The mirror of consciousness
John Taylor, Pure consciousness in meditation and the self
Fred Travis, Beyond ordinary consciousness: What is the relation between brain activity and transcendental experience?
Mario Vaneechoutte, Experience, awareness, and consciousness: Suggestions for definitions as offered by an evolutionary approach
Ken Wilber, An integral theory of consciousness
Ken Wilber, The hard problem and integral psychology
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You might also wish to join one of the associations if you truly wish to get beyond the mystical and the childlike. The following article lists a number of scientific associations which might help you to get a handle on this or to contribute to a discussion.
Scientific Study of Consciousness
Brief Introductory Information
Why are top scientists from the fields of neuroscience, biology, psychology, physics, computation, and philosophy increasingly interested in researching human consciousness?
Because the quest to solve the puzzle of human consciousness—the very essence of our being—is one of the great problems of modern science.
For 2000 years, the questions surrounding human consciousness (how the everyday inner workings of our brains give rise to a single cohesive ‘reality’ and a sense of an individual ‘self’) have been the province of philosophers from Plato to Descartes to Spinoza.
Descartes is remembered for his dualist theory of consciousness in which the physical body is separate from the immaterial mind (or soul), and in large part because of his famous ‘sound-bite’ about human consciousness,” I think, therefore I am.”
However, modern brain imaging seems to indicate that it is Spinoza’s concept of an integrated mind-body that is closer to reality. And psychologist William James’ great work on consciousness in the late 1800s is slowly regaining the pivotal position it deserves in understanding and interpreting human behavior.
Scientists have studied the evolution, the mechanisms and the function of the brain, but have difficulty teasing apart the complex processes that give rise to human consciousness in part because of the difficulty in measuring individual subjective experience.
Nobel-award winning researcher Dr. Francis Crick, who devoted the last 15 years of his life to the study of consciousness, wrote:
"Solving the problem of consciousness will need the labors of many scientists, of many kinds, though it is always possible that there will be a few crucial insights and observations. ... A few years ago one could not use the word 'consciousness' in a paper, for, say, Nature or Science, nor in a grant application. But thankfully, times are changing, and the subject is now ripe for intensive exploration."
From Francis Crick's Foreword to Christof Koch's new book, The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach.
In fact, technological advances in brain imaging have given scientists a new range of tools to more accurately observe and measure the apparent causes and manifestations of consciousness. fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) produces vivid images of the areas of the brain that respond to a variety of stimuli. Instead of trying to measure a purely subjective response, such as “that made me feel good,” scientists can also see what part of the subject’s brain is responding, for how long, and to what degree.
Many scientists believe that we are beginning to learn how a subjective, personal experience can be observed objectively. For the scientist, this makes all the difference between valid research and speculation.
In addition to major scientific publications, such as Science and Nature, the scientific journal Consciousness and Cognition reports scientific research relative to the study of consciousness and cognitive processes. Trends in Cognitive Science also often features research bearing on the question of consciousness. And the Journal of Consciousness Studies contains a wide variety of reflections by academic scholars and researchers in anatomy, computation, physiology, psychology, artificial intelligence, religion, philosophy and more.
The Mind Science Foundation is dedicated to solving one of the major questions of modern science—the puzzle of human consciousness—by funding leading-edge scientific research and education focused on the mind/brain.
The Science and Consciousness Review website, designed to educate students about consciousness, contains a sampling of current articles on consciousness from several sources and scientific journals, and typically provides educational summaries and abstracts. The site also links to consciousness research laboratories and researchers worldwide.
The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) founded in 1996 will meet for its 9th annual conference June 24-27, 2005 at Cal-Tech in Pasadena, California -- bringing together some of the world’s leading scientific researchers in consciousness for four days of presentations and discussions on emerging trends in the field. ASSC 9 Conference Info.
The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson will host its bi-annual conference, “Toward a Science of Consciousness,” in April 2006.
Scientific American Special Edition on The MIND
“The Quest to Find Consciousness” by Dr. Gerhard Roth, Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen, Germany (Vol. 14, #1 Dec. 2003)
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Recommended books:
Essential Sources in Consciousness (Baars, Banks and Newman; MIT Press, January 2003)
In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind. (Baars; Oxford, 1997)
Consciousness: A User’s Guide (Zeman; Yale University Press, March 2003)
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach (Koch; Roberts and Co., January 2004)
Consciousness (Hobson; WH Freeman & Co., January 2001)
Journey to the Centres of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness and The Private Life of the Brain (Greenfield; WH Freeman & Co., 1995, and John Wiley & Sons, 2001)
Descarte’s Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (Damasio; Avon, 1995, and Harvest Books 2003)
The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Schwartz and Begley; Regan Books; 2002)
A Universe of Consciousness ( Edelman & Tononi; Basic, 2000)
The Astonishing Hypothesis (Crick, 1994)
Websites:
Mind Science Foundation
Science and Consciousness Review
Center for Consciousness Studies
mindscience.org
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