Epistemology, Consciousness, and the Mind

    • The Sputnik Meme Theory Index
    • Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer by John Lilly, author's note and second chapter.

    • Sensation and Perception Links -- Illusions and sensory perception.

    • The Nature of Man: Understanding the development of mind from an initial null state in terms of logical principles which are independent of any specific genetic con structs -- a philosophical defense of the tabula rasa hypothesis.

    • Social Cognition Papers.

    • Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory
    • The Brain Book by Stephen Gislason, M.D.

    • Neuroscience-Net, a new on-line journal.

    • Compendium of Social Psychology Web Resources.

    • Psychology Web Archive -- a jumping off place for social psychologists.

    • The Institute of Cognitive Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

    • Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, includes:

      • Subliminal Self-help Auditory Tapes: An Empirical Test of Perceptual Consequences -- A bunch of hooey, says the author.

    • A collection of Papers from Michael J. Gourlay, includes:

      • "Investigation into the Possibility of Alingual Modes of Mental Activity"

      • "The History of Foundationalism"

      • "Foundationalism: The Problem of Knowledge"

      • "Practical Cognition"

      • "Pondering the Mysteries of the Deaf"

      • "A Philosophy that Gives a Damn: Emerson and the Decline of Logical Positivism"

      • "As the Epistemology Turns"

      • "The Commensurability of Rationality"

    • Phenomena of the Psyche and Other Inexplicable Anomalies: A collection of Esoteric Resources that Deal with Our Realm of Perception.

    • Consciousness Research Laboratory from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

    • Resources for Psychology and Cognitive Sciences on the Internet from Shinshu University.

    • Neuropsychology Central -- A large, comprehensive list of relevant links.

    • Psyc Site -- a launch-pad of links for people interested in the science of psychology.

    • Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet from Stanford University.

    • AI, Cognitive Science and Robotics WWW Resource Page from University College London.

    • The WWW Virtual Library: Cognitive Science.

    • Mind/Brain Resources

    • Synesthesia: The MIT Media Lab archive.

    • Neurosciences on the Internet

    • NeuroWeb from the University of California at San Diego.

    • Psyche: An interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness, includes:

      • A symposium on Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind, includes:

        • "Can Physics Provide a Theory of Consciousness?" by Bernard J. Baars.

        • "Minds, Machines, and Mathematics" by David J. Chalmers.

        • "Penrose's Gödelian Argument" by Soloman Feferman.

        • "Is Quantum Mechanics Relevant to Understanding Consciousness?" by Stanley A. Klein.

        • "Between the Motion and the Act" by Tim Maudlin. Gödel's theorem as a mathematical abstraction and how it applies to physical reality.

        • "Awareness and Understanding in Computer Programs" by John McCarthy.

        • "Can Humans Escape Gödel?" by Daryl McCullough.

        • "* Penrose is Wrong" by Drew McDermott.

        • "Roger Penrose's Gravitonic Brains" by Hans Moravec. Extends the dialog between Albert Imperator and the Mathematically J ustified Cybersystem.

        • "Beyond the Doubting of a Shadow" by Roger Penrose. Penrose's response to the above commentaries.

      • A Symposium on Quantum Theory and Consciousness, includes:

        • "Quantum Consciousness is Cybernetic" by Gordon Globus.

        • "Why Classical Mechanics Cannot Naturally Accommodate Consciousness but Quantum Mechanics Can" by Henry P. Stapp.

        • "Why the Difference Between Quantum and Classical Physics is Irrelevant to the Mind/Body Problem" by Kirk Ludwig (a commen tary on Stapp's piece, above).

        • "On the End of a Quantum Mechanical Romance" by Gregory R. Mulhauser. There may be no connection between quantum me chanics and the mechanisms of consciousness.

      • A Symposium on Synesthesia, includes:

        • "Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology: A review of current knowledge" by Richard E. Cytowic.

        • "Synesthesia and Method" by Kevin B. Korb.

        • "A Synesthesia Experiment: Consciousness of Neural Activity" by James A. Schirillo.

      • A Symposium on Implicit Learning, includes:

        • "On the Neural Mechanisms of Sequence Learning" by Tim Curran.

        • "Do Measures of Explicit Learning Actually Measure What is Being Learnt in the Serial Reaction Time Task? A Critique of Current Methods" by Georgina M. Jackson & Stephen R. Jackson.

        • "The Death of Implicit Memory" by Daniel B. Willingham & Laura Preuss.

      • And book reviews, including:

        • "A Lack of Depth" by Matthew Elton, a review of Derek Denton's The Pinnacle of Life: Consciousness and self-awareness in h umans and animals.

        • "A Self Divided" by Valerie Gray Hardcastle, a review of Frank S. Kessel, Pamela M. Cole, and Dale L. Johnson's Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives.

        • A Review of Creativity and Consciousness: Philosophical and Psychological Dimensions by Adriano P. Palma.

        • A Review of The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search For The Soul by Francis Crick, by Bill Webster.

        • A review of The Computational Brain by P.S. Churchland and T.J. Sejnowski by Bruce Bridgeman.

        • A review of Consciousness and Behavior by Benjamin Wallace and Leslie E. Fisher by Bruce Bridgeman.

        • "Getting the Ghost out of the Machine: A Review of Arnold Trehub's The Cognitive Brain" by Luciano da Fontoura Costa.

        • A review of Consciousness: Philosophical Issues Volume 1, edited by E. Villanueva by Matthew Elton.

        • A review of Consciousness Reconsidered by Owen Flanagan by Valerie Gray Hardcastle & Peter E. Pruim.

        • "Stage Effects in the Cartesian Theater: A review of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained" by Kevin B. Korb.

        • A review of Unilateral Neglect: Clinical and Experimental Studies edited by Ian H. Robertson & John C. Marshall by Robin Walker.

      • "Searle on the Brink" by Selmer Bringsjord.

      • "Vagueness, Semantics, and the Language of Thought" by Richard DeWitt.

      • A Symposium on Contrastive Analysis, includes:

        • "A Thoroughly Empirical Approach To Consciousness" by Bernard J. Baars.

        • "Delineating Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Commentary on Baars on Contrastive Analysis" by John A. Allen.

        • "Baars Falls Prey to the Timidity He Rejects: Commentary on Baars on Contrastive Analysis" by Selmer Bringsjord.

        • "Working Definitions of 'Non-Conscious': Commentary on Baars on Contrastive Analysis" by Greg Davis.

        • "The Dead Hand: Commentary on Baars on contrastive analysis" by Bruce Mangan.

        • "Consciousness Requires Global Activation: Commentary on Baars on Contrastive Analysis" by James Newman.

        • "A Thoroughly Empirical First-Person Approach to Consciousness: Commentary on Baars on Contrastive Analysis" by Max Velmans.

        • "A Welcome Dialogue on Empirical Issues: Reply to commentaries on Baars on contrastive analysis" by Bernard J. Baars.

    • The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, includes:

      • "Existential Phenomenology and Cognitive Science" by Mark Wrathall and Sean Kelly.

      • "Why the Mind isn't a Program (But Some Digital Computer Might Have a Mind)" by Mark Okrent.

      • "The Current Relevance of Merleu-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment" by Hubert L. Dreyfus.

      • "An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Science" by John T. Sanders.

      • "Wooden Iron? Husserlian Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science" by Tim van Gelder.

      • "Realistic Truth Relativism, Frameworks of Belief and Conceptual Schemes" by Peter Davson-Galle.

      • "Conscious Computations" by Valerie Gray Hardcastle.

    • The Journal of Mind and Behavior.

    • Psycoloquy, includes:

      • "From Pink Elephants to Psychosomatic Disorders: Paradoxical Effects in Cognition" by David Navon.

      • And much more...

    • Washington University in St. Louis Philosophy / Neuroscience / Psychology Archive, includes:

      • "A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition" by David J. Chalmers.

      • "The Components of Content" by David J. Chalmers.

      • "Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography" by David J. Chalmers.

      • "Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia" by David J. Chalmers.

      • "Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton?" by David J. Chalmers.

      • "The Extended Mind" by Andy Clark & David J. Chalmers.

      • "Minds, Machines, and Mathematics" by David J. Chalmers, a review of Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind.

    • Behavioral & Brain Sciences Target Article Preprints, including:

      • "Precis of Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition" by Merlin Donald.

      • "Co-Evolution of Neocortex Size, Group Size and Language in Humans" by R.I.M. Dunbar.

      • "Neuropsychological Inference With an Interactive Brain: A Critique of the Locality Assumption" by Martha J. Farah.

      • "The Contents of Consciousness: A Neuropsychological Conjecture" by Jeffrey A. Gray.

      • "Resolving the Contradictions of Addiction" by Gene M. Heyman.

      • "The Sociobiology of Sociopathy: An Integrated Evolutionary Model" by Linda Mealey.

      • "Real Self-Deception" by Alfred R. Mele.

      • "Precis of Images of Mind" by Michael I. Posner & Marcus E. Raichle.

      • "Brain Evolution and Neurolinguistic Preconditions" by Wendy K. Wilkins & Jennie Wakefield.

      • "Re-introducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences" by David Sloan Wilson & Elliott Sober.

      • And many more...

    • The Journal of Consciousness Studies, includes:

      • "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" by David J. Chalmers. Argues that in trying to locate consciousness in the brain, there are "hard" problems and "easy" problems, and that solutions to the "easy" problems may or may not help us solve the "hard" ones.

      • "Conversations with Zombies" by Todd C. Moody. "Given any functional description of cognition, it will still make sense to suppose that there could be i nsentient beings that exemplify that description. There could be a behaviourally indiscernible but insentient simulacrum of a human cognizer: a zombie.

      • "The Challenge of Consciousness Research" by Brian D. Josephson and Beverly A. Rubik. Let's be open-minded about our approach to this thorny p roblem.

    • The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition.

    • Cog-Neuro sites on the Internet, courtesy CNBC.

    • The Neural Processes in Cognition Program.

    • H.M. Hubey's Home Page includes the papers "Intelligence, Tests, Probability, Learning, Knowledge, and Multiple Scales," "Catastrophe Theory and Human Sexual Respons e," and "Society: Equations of Evolution of Human Systems."

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