Toward a Science of Consciousness II: The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates, Volume 2Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn Scott This book's fifteen sections demonstrate the broad range of fields now focusing on consciousness. The sections include philosophy, cognitive science, medicine, neurobiology, neural correlates, vision, sleep and dreaming, anesthesia, molecular biology and evolution, quantum theory, spacetime, hierarchical organization, and experiential approaches. What is consciousness? Recent attempts to answer this question have motivated two interdisciplinary conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first volume of Toward a Science of Consciousness is now considered a resource book for the emerging field. This volume presents a selection of invited papers from the second conference, held in April 1996. The book's fifteen sections demonstrate the broad range of fields now focusing on consciousness. The sections include philosophy, cognitive science, medicine, neurobiology, neural correlates, vision, sleep and dreaming, anesthesia, molecular biology and evolution, quantum theory, spacetime, hierarchial organization, and experiential approaches. Each section is preceded by an overview and commentary. The participants include Bernard Baars, Ned Block, David J. Chalmers, Patricia S. Churchland, Daniel C. Dennett, Jeffrey Gray, Daniel Hillis, J. Allan Hobson, Stephen LaBerge, Jaron Lanier, Daniel S. Levine, Nikos K. Logothetis, Gary E. Schwartz, John R. Searle, Roger N. Shepard, Henry P. Stapp, Petra Stoerig, Charles T. Tart, John Taylor, Francisco J. Varela, Max Velmans, Roger Walsh, and Lawrence Weiskantz. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
How to Study Consciousness Scientifically | 15 |
A Science of Consciousness as If Experience Mattered | 31 |
Goodbye to Reductionism | 45 |
Reductionism Revisited | 71 |
The Myth of Double Transduction | 97 |
Nonneural Theories of Conscious Experience | 109 |
Whiteheads Even More Dangerous Idea | 127 |
DoubleJudgment Psychophysics for Research | 361 |
Biology Evolution and Consciousness | 379 |
Bacteria as Tools for Studies of Consciousness | 397 |
Anesthesiology | 439 |
On the Mechanism of Action of Anesthetic Agents | 459 |
A Neuropsychological | 473 |
A Dynamical View | 487 |
Dreaming and Consciousness | 495 |
My Experience Your Experience and the World | 143 |
Folk Psychology Science and the Criminal Law | 157 |
Zombie Killer | 171 |
A Critique of Machine | 185 |
Neural Correlates of Consciousness | 215 |
A Rosetta Stone for Mind and Brain? | 231 |
Anterior Cingulate Cortex Participates in the Conscious | 247 |
Using Brain | 255 |
A Relational Global | 269 |
Creeping up on the Hard Question of Consciousness | 279 |
Vision and Consciousness | 293 |
SingleNeuron Activity and Visual Perception | 309 |
The Role of Memory | 321 |
How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness | 329 |
Speeded Digit Identification under Impaired Perceptual | 339 |
A Shotgun Marriage? | 513 |
Perspectives on Consciousness Language and Other Emergent | 533 |
A Question | 551 |
Emergent and Hierarchical Systems | 573 |
Quantum Theory Spacetime and Consciousness | 593 |
Why Are Quantum Theorists Interested in Consciousness? | 609 |
A Discussion on the Relevance | 635 |
Time Expansion and the Perception of Acoustic Images in | 649 |
Transpersonal Psychology | 667 |
Parapsychology | 687 |
Why Psi Tells Us Nothing About Consciousness | 701 |
Aesthetics and Creative Experience | 715 |
Poetry Mental Models and Discordant Consciousness | 733 |
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