The Science and Philosophy of Consciousness
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Contents:
The Empirical Description of Conscious Experience
The Neuroscience of Consciousness
Physics for Consciousness Studies
Meditation, Dreams and Reality
Religion, Mind, Evolution and the Social Order
The Empirical Description of Conscious Experience
Introduction: Theories of Consciousness
A Bibliographic Approach for Students
The Foundations of the Scientific Study of Consciousness
The Scientific Description of Conscious Experience
Spoken Language and Verbal Thought
Processes
Space and Time
Space
The Observation Point
Time
The Location of Conscious Experience
The Geometry of Conscious Experience
The Problem of Knowledge
Quantum Theory: A Phenomenon Connecting the Epiphenomenal Mind
How the Conscious Brain Works - Putting it all Together
Notes, Bibliography, Links and References
A Bibliographic Approach for Students:
Rene Descartes (1628). Rules For The Direction of The Mind
Rene Descartes 1641. Meditations on first philosophy
Nicholas Malebranche (1674-5). The Search After Truth (De la Recherche de la Verite)
Nicholas Malebranche (1674-5). Meditations sur l'humilité et la pénitence
Locke, J. (1689). An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Hume (1739-40). A Treatise of Human Nature: Being An Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects.
David Hume (1748) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Immanuel Kant (1781). Critique of Pure Reason
Edmund Husserl (1937). The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. An Introduction to Phenomenology
Edmund Husserl(1928) The Amsterdam Lectures.
John Searle (1980) Minds, Brains and Programs.
Daniel Dennett and Marcel Kinsbourne (1992) The Multiple Drafts Model.
John Searle (1992) The Problem of Consciousness.
Max Velmans (1990-2003) A Reflexive Science of Consciousness
Chalmers (1996) The Conscious Mind. In Search of a Fundamental Theory.
Francis Crick (1994) The Astonishing Hypothesis. The Scientific Search for the Soul.
The Neuroscience of Consciousness
Introduction
The Role of the Cerebral Cortex - The Big Grey Dream Machine
Blindsight
The Role of the Thalamus
Binocular Rivalry, Pattern Rivalry and Binocular Fusion
Synchronisation of Neural Processes
Bibliography and References
Physics for Consciousness Studies
Introduction: Symmetry and Invariance
Proof of a Four Dimensional World - A Short Guide to Special Relativity
The Prediction that there is a Velocity that is a Universal Constant
The Prediction that Clocks Go Slower on Moving Objects
The Prediction that Different Events can be Simultaneous for Different Observers
The Lorentz Transformation Equations
Phase and The Reality of Length Contraction
The Twin Paradox
The Light Cone
Measurement and Observation
Quantum Theory
Quantum States and Superpositions
Decoherence and The Operational Interpretation of Quantum Theory.
Spooky Action at a Distance, Instantaneous Communication and Bells Theorem
The Interpretation of Relativity and Quantum Theory
The Physical Nature of the Site of Conscious Experience
Qualia
Depth Perception
Philosophical Implications of the Theory and Free Will
Other Theories of Consciousness
Meditation, Dreams and Reality
Religion, Mind, Evolution and the Social Order
Religion
The Internal and External
Materialism, Marxism, Post Marxism, Post Structuralism and Post Modernism
Evolution