Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness Studies: Page 5

First of the philosopher Ted Honderich's papers on the idea that perceptual consciousness is a kind of existence of things or a world.

Organization researching such areas as mind/brain/machine interface, anomalous consciousness, and lucid dreaming.

An introduction to the powers and perils of intuition, plus related essays and links to leading researchers.

Home page of moderated email forum devoted to discussion of articles in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. With a digest of some of the most interesting past debates.

Useful links on Consciousness Studies, plus contents and some materials from the journal..

An established psychology print journal that frequently publishes articles on consciousness.

Society for the discussion of Jaynes' bicameral mind theory of consciousness. Includes bibliography (with some abstracts and full-text articles), members-only area, and online application form.

Article by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy (dated 19-Jul-1999).

Gives access to publications by this well known, non-dualist and non-reductionist, consciousness researcher and psychologist. Many of his papers are available online here, plus abstracts of others and blurbs of his 3 books on the subject with links to reviews.

From analysis of neurocognitive/affective processes of the Brain the site comes up with a model of meaning that includes Mind being an abstraction from Brain and our species fundamental adaptation has been to light/EMF processing. From this work is identified a template used to create metaphors.