Toward a Science of Consciousness II : the Second Tucson Discussions and Debates

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How to study consciousness scientifically / John R. Searle

A science of consciousness as if experience mattered / Francisco J. Varela

Goodbye to reductionism / Max Velmans

What can mysticism teach us about consciousness? / Robert K.C. Forman

Reductionism revisited / Alwyn C. Scott

The enigma of sentience / Michael Lockwood

The myth of double transduction / Daniel C. Dennett

Brainshy : nonneural theories of conscious experience / Patricia Smith Churchland

Whitehead's even more dangerous idea / Peter Farleigh

Against functionalism : consciousness as an information-bearing medium / Bruce Mangan

My experience, your experience, and the world we experience : turning the hard problem upside down / Roger N. Shepard and Piet Hut

The boundary problem for phenomenal individuals / Gregg H. Rosenberg

Folk psychology, science, and the criminal law / David Hodgson

Zombie killer / Nigel J.T. Thomas

Can a machine be conscious? / Danny Hillis

Mindless thought experiments : a critique of machine intelligence / Jaron Lanier

Structure and function / Giuseppe Vitiello

"More neural than thou" / Stuart R. Hameroff

On the search for the neural correlate of consciousness / David J. Chalmers

A Rosetta stone for mind and brain? / Susan A. Greenfield

Locating the subjectivity pump : the thalamic intralaminar nuclei / Joseph E. Bogen

Anterior cingulate cortex participates in the conscious experience of emotion / Richard D. Lane [and others]

Toward the neurobiology of consciousness : using brain imaging and anesthesia to investigate the anatomy of consciousness / Michael T. Alkire, Richard J. Haier and H. Fallon James

Neuronal mechanisms of consciousness : a relational global workspace framework / Bernard J. Baars, James Newman, John G. Taylor

Creeping up on the hard question of consciousness / Jeffrey A. Gray

Varieties of vision : from blind responses to conscious recognition / Petra Stoerig

Single-neuron activity and visual perception / Nikos K. Logothetis and David A. Leopold

Visual imagery and visual perception : the role of memory and conscious awareness / Alumit Ishai and Dov Sagi

How not to find the neural correlate of consciousness / Ned Block

Speeded digit identification under impaired perceptual awareness / Syoichi Iwasaki

Fast dynamics of visibility of brief visual images : the perceptual-retouch viewpoint / Talis Bachmann

Double-judgment psychophysics for research on consciousness : application to blindsight / Stanley A. Klein

Consciousness and commentaries / Lawrence Weiskrantz

Evolution of intelligence, language, and other emergent processes for consciousness : a comparative perspective / James E. King, Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Bacteria as tools for studies of consciousness / Victor Norris

Nonlinear dynamics in the photoreceptor of the unicellular alga Euglena gracilis : an application to the evolutionary aspects of consciousness / Ezio M. Insinna

Did consciousness cause the Cambrian evolutionary explosion? / Stuart R. Hameroff

The molecular basis of general anesthesia : current ideas / Nicholas P. Franks and William R. Lieb

On the mechanism of action of anesthetic agents / Hans Flohr

The conscious state paradigm : a neuropsychological analysis of waking, sleeping, and dreaming / J. Allan Hobson

Dream sleep and waking reality : a dynamical view / Allan Combs and Stanley Krippner

Dreaming and consciousness / Stephen LaBerge

Representational momentum and other displacements in memory as evidence for nonconscious knowledge of physical principles / Timothy L. Hubbard

Emotion and consciousness : a shotgun marriage? / Daniel S. Levine

King Solomon's ring redivivus : cross-species communication and cognition / Colin G. Beer

Perspectives on consciousness, language, and other emergent processes in apes and humans / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Duane M. Rumbaugh

Cognition and communication in dolphins : a question of consciousness / Diana Reiss

Language and mental life / Paul Bloom

The five kinds of levels of description / Andrew Bailey

Beyond substance and process : a new framework for emergence / Syed Mustafa Ali and Robert M. Zimmer

The evolution of consciousness / Henry P. Stapp

Why are quantum theorists interested in consciousness? / Euan J. Squires

Synaptic transmission, quantum-state selection, and consciousness / Friedrich Beck

A Sonoran afternoon : a discussion on the relevance of quantum theory to consciousness / Stuart R. Hameroff and Alwyn C. Scott

Time expansion and the perception of acoustic images in the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus / Prestor A. Saillant and James A. Simmons

Context, conditioning, and meaning of time-consciousness in a Trappist monastery / Van A. Reidhead and John B. Wolford

Transpersonal psychology and methodologies for a comprehensive science of consciousness / Charles T. Tart

States and stages of consciousness : current research and understandings / Roger Walsh

Parapsychology : fact or fiction? : replicable evidence for unusual consciousness effects / Marilyn Schlitz and Edwin May

Why psi tells us nothing about consciousness / Susan Blackmore

Do psi phenomena suggest radical dualism? / Dick Bierman

Modeling creativity : taking the evidence seriously / Lis Nielsen

The dimensions of creativity / Aaron King and Alwyn C. Scott

Poetry, mental models, and discordant consciousness / Paul K. Johnston