Consciousness Studies
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Consciousness Research Laboratory
Describes the scientific study of the role of Consciousness in the physical world.
Consciousness Rules
Explores consciousness as both the nature and purpose of reality, as well as the ethical and political implications.
Consciousness Studies
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Presents an outline of Consciousness research at the University of Arizona.
Consciousness Studies by Peter B. Lloyd
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/cns.htm
The nature of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. References to George Berkeley and psi phenomena.
Consciousness, Brain and the Physical World
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/02/38/cog00000238-00/199801005.html
Seminal 1990 article by Max Velmans.
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal
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.
Consciousness: The Detector Approach
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-61325/ConsciousnessTheDetectorApproach/
Understanding the Hard Problem - How Consciousness can fit into our Natural Orders. By Jan Holmgren.
Consciousness: The Unity of Perception, Aspiration, and Emotion and its Control Mechanisms
http://www.dressler-consciousness.de/
Short online 'book' (or long article) by Johannes Dressler (English translation of the original German).
Consciousness: what can the paranormal teach us about it?
http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-03/conciousness.html
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.
Development of Western Consciousness
http://rimu.orcon.net.nz/con/index.html
Some ideas about how consciousness has changed since pre-history up until the present day, and how it will continue to change.



