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Consciousness studies embraces the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness.

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Contents

 

• 1 Contents
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Part I: Historical review
• 1.3 Part II: The problem of consciousness
• 1.4 Part III: Neuroscience of consciousness
• 1.5 Part IV: Explanations of Consciousness
• 1.6 Appendices

Introduction

• Introduction
• A note on Naive Realism
• Intended audience and how to read this book

Part I: Historical review

• Early Ideas
• Medieval Concepts
• Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Philosophy
• Nineteenth To Twenty First Century Philosophy

Part II: The problem of consciousness

• What needs to be explained: the description and definition of phenomenal consciousness
• The conflict - where, when and what?
• The regression argument
• The subject-object paradox
• The homunculus argument
• Phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness
• Direct Realism
• Indirect Realism
• Dualism
• Idealism
• Panpsychism
• Breaking down the philosophical and scientific problems
• The philosophical problem of phenomenal consciousness
• Epiphenomenalism and the problem of change
• The problem of time
• The problem of space
• The problem of qualia
• Elementary Information and Information Systems Theory
• Classification, signs, sense, relations, supervenience etc.
• Qualia and Information
• Absent and fading qualia
• Putnam's twin earth thought experiment
• The Inverted Qualia Argument
• The Knowledge Argument
• The problem of machine and digital consciousness
• Measurement in physics and the preferred basis problem

Part III: Neuroscience of consciousness

• The neuroscience of consciousness
• Introduction
• The substrate of experience
• Neuroanatomy
• Topological mapping and cortical columns
• The neurophysiology of sensation and perception
• Vision
• Depth perception
• The cortex and thalamus
• The cortex and consciousness
• Perception, Imagination, Memory and Dreams
• More about Models
• Blindsight
• The Role of the Thalamus
• General Anaesthesia and the Thalamus
• The function of consciousness
• Perceptual "filling in"
• Rivalries and synchronisation
• Binocular Rivalry, Pattern Rivalry and Binocular Fusion
• Synchronisation of Neural Processes
• EEG and synchronisation
• Event related potentials
• The integration delay
• Global Workspace Theory
• The "cognitive map" and the neural basis of perceptual space
• Behaviourism And Consciousness
• Models Of Access Consciousness
• Neural networks
• Quantum information processing

Part IV: Explanations of Consciousness

• Contemporary explanations of consciousness
• The identity theory of mind
• Scientific theories
• Functionalism
• Dualism
• Intentionalism
• Higher order thought
• Eliminativism
• Mysterianism
• Idealism and panpsychism
• Other explanations of consciousness
• Consciousness-only
• BioPsychoSociology Model 1 BPS Model

Appendices

Some physical science for consciousness studies:

• Ontology of Newtonian physics: kinetic energy and magnetism
• The origin of the metric tensor
• Action, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics
• Index
• Notes for the Contributors
• Contributors

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Subcategories

 Sensation and Perception

D

`    ► Dream (3 C, 87 P)

`M

`    ► Mind–body problem (3 C, 12 P)

`N

`    ► Neurotheology (14 P)

`Q

`    ► Quantum mind (17 P)

``R

• Consciousness Research Groups
• Consciousness Researchers and Theorists

``T

• Theory Of Consciousness

`    ► Transpersonal studies (1 C, 10 P)

`U

`    ► Unconscious (1 C, 8 P)

Pages

A

`    Adaptive unconscious

    Affect consciousness

    Altered state of consciousness

    Amerta Movement

    Artificial consciousness

    Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

    The Astonishing Hypothesis

    Autonoetic consciousness

Autopoiesis

`B

`    Best Illusion of the Year Contest

    Binocular rivalry

    Blindsight

    Bridge locus

`C

`    Cartesian theater

    Cat intelligence

    Change blindness

    Change deafness

    Coincidance: A Head Test

    Consciousness after death

Consciousness and Cognition

`D

`    Dark retreat

    Dehaene–Changeux model

    Dual consciousness (neuroscience)

`E

`    Ego integrity

    Eight Consciousnesses

    Eight-circuit model of consciousness

    Electromagnetic theories of consciousness

    The Emperor's New Mind

    Explanatory gap

`F

`    Five wisdoms

`G

`    The Ghost in the Machine

    Global Consciousness Project

    Global Workspace Theory

`H

Hard Problem of Consciousness

    Higher-order theories of consciousness

    Holonomic brain theory

    How the Self Controls Its Brain

`I

`    Implicate and explicate order

    Indefinite monism

    Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge

    Integrated information theory

    Intentional stance

    Intentionality

    Internal discourse

    Internal monologue

    Ishtar Rising

`J

`    William James

    Janus: A Summing Up

    Journal of Consciousness Studies

`L

`    List of optical illusions

`M

`    Many-minds interpretation

    The Mechanism of the Mind

    Mental event

    Mental fact

    Merkwelt

    Mind and Life Institute

    Mind Science Foundation

    Mind–body problem

    Mind-wandering

    Mirror test

    Robert Monroe

    Motion silencing illusion

    Multiple drafts model

    Mythopoeic thought

`N

`    Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy

    Neural correlates of consciousness

    Neural Darwinism

    Neurophenomenology

    New mysterianism

    Institute of Noetic Sciences

`O

`    Online Consciousness Conference

    Optical illusion

    Overview effect

`P

`    Participating consciousness

    Phenomenal concept strategy

    Gestalt Practice

    Preconscious

    Prometheus Rising

    Psyche (consciousness journal)

    Psychonautics

`Q

`    Qualia

    Quantum Psychology

    Quantum suicide and immortality

    Christian de Quincey

`R

`    Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

    Reality tunnel

    Reflexive monism

    Reflexive self-consciousness

    Dean Radin

`S

`    Science and Consciousness Review

    Sciousness

    Self model

    Self-awareness

    Sentience

    Sex, Drugs and Magick

    Shadows of the Mind

    Simulated consciousness (science fiction)

    Society of Mind

    Sociology of human consciousness

    Split-brain

    Rudolf Steiner

    Stream of consciousness (psychology)

Subconscious

    Subjective character of experience

    Subjective consciousness

    Subpersonality

    Synesthesia

`T

`    Tale of the Tribe

    Toward a Science of Consciousness

    Train of thought

    Trance

    TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution

`U

Unconsciousness

    Understanding Consciousness

    Up from Dragons

    User illusion

`V

`    Visual short-term memory

`W

`    Harald Walach

    B. Alan Wallace

    William James Prize

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Categories:

Phenomenology

• Cognitive psychology
• Consciousness