Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates, Volume 1Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn Scott Scientists and philosophers are focusing more intensely than ever on the nature of our human experience, resulting in a newly coalescing field of Consciousness Studies that has become a worldwide and highly interdisciplinary phenomenon. Toward a Science of Consciousness marks the first major gathering -- a landmark event -- devoted entirely to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness. It explores the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and dream research, to neuropsychology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, to neural networks, phenomenological accounts, and even the physics of reality. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research while also reaching consensus on many scattered areas of inquiry. Following an overview, fifty-five chapters are divided into ten sections: philosophy, cognitive science, medicine/pathology, neurology, neural networks, subneural biology, quantum theory, non-locality in space and time, hierarchical organization, and phenomenology. In addition to the editors, who are, respectively, an anesthesiologist, a psychologist, and an applied mathematician, contributors include such luminaries as David Chalmers, Michael Conrad, Avshalom Elitzur, Owen Flanagan, David Galin, John Kihlstrom, Christof Koch, Benjamin Libet, Roger Penrose, Karl Pribram, Gary Schwartz, Petra Stoerig, John Taylor, Andrew Weil, Fred Wolf, and many others. |
Contents
Consciousness and the Introspective Link Principle | 29 |
The Binding Problem and Neurobiological Oscillations | 63 |
Cognitive Science | 89 |
Efference and the Extension of Consciousness | 105 |
Sharpen | 121 |
Biological Roots | 141 |
Medicine | 165 |
Conflicting Communicative Behavior in a SplitBrain | 189 |
Subneural Biology | 393 |
Microtubular SelfOrganization and Information | 407 |
Computer Simulation of Anesthetic Binding in Protein | 425 |
Consciousness and BoseEinstein Condensates | 439 |
Implications | 493 |
Orchestrated Reduction of Quantum Coherence in Brain | 507 |
Nonlocal Space and Time | 541 |
A New Computational Paradigm | 569 |
Evidence for Language Comprehension in a Severe | 223 |
Experimental Neuroscience | 243 |
Visual Perception and Phenomenal Consciousness | 259 |
Implicit Memory During Anesthesia | 295 |
Experimental Evidence for a Synchronization of Sensory | 303 |
Positron Emission Tomography Emotion and Consciousness | 311 |
Dimensional Complexity of Human EEG and Level | 321 |
Collapse of a Quantum Field May Affect Brain Function | 331 |
Neural Time Factors in Conscious and Unconscious | 337 |
Neural Networks | 349 |
Artificial Attention in an Oscillatory Neural Network | 377 |
Categorization Far From | 383 |
Psi and Consciousness | 589 |
Hierarchical Organization | 609 |
A Framework for HigherOrder Cognition and Consciousness | 633 |
Bioenergetic Foundations of Consciousness | 649 |
Phenomenology | 673 |
What Can Music Tell Us About the Nature of the Mind? | 691 |
Implications | 707 |
ΧΙ Overview | 725 |
The Possibility of Empirical Test of Hypotheses | 739 |
Addressing | 743 |
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