The Mediations of Consciousness
edited by Alberto López Cuenca
Introduction: From the Brain to General Intellect: Commentary on the Mediations of Consciousness
There is an overwhelming amount of literature about the nature of consciousness and its riddles. Yet one must necessarily work through this literature if one is interested in the philosophical and scientific details of the related debates. However, this means that this short book can be neither an exhaustive introduction nor a developed stance on the issue of consciousness – the problem of the mind-body relationship, the reduction of mental states to brain states, or the attribution of consciousness to single individuals. Something of that kind can be found elsewhere.1 As far as these issues are concerned, this Living Book is more of a call to pay attention to the current ways in which some of the scientific discussions about consciousness are framed. (more...)
The Riddle of Consciousness
- Max Velmans
- How to Define Consciousness -- And How Not to Define Consciousness
- Richard Robinson
- Exploring the 'Global Workspace' of Consciousness
- Erik Sorem
- Searle, Materialism, and the Mind-Body Problem
Representing Consciousness
- Amr A Guenedi, Ala'Alddin Al Hussaini, Yousif A Obeid, Samir Hussain, Faisal Al-Azri and Samir Al-Adawi
- Investigation of the Cerebral Blood Flow of an Omani Man with Supposed ‘Spirit Possession’ Associated with an Altered Mental State: A Case Report
- Arvid Lundervold
- On Consciousness, Resting State fMRI, and Neurodynamics
- Cornelis J. Stam & Jaap C. Reijneveld
- Graph Theoretical Analysis of Complex Networks in the Brain
Extended Consciousness
- Xialei Zhang
- The Emergence of Consciousness in the Quantum Universe
- Mondendra Grover
- The Quantum Computing Conscious Universe and the Extended Deep Ecology Hypothesis: Implications for Medicine, Agriculture and Technology
- Axel A. Randrup
- Animal Mind as Approached by the Transpersonal: Notion of Collective Conscious Experience
Appendix: Varieties of Conscious Experience
- David W. Hill
- Reflections on Leaving Facebook