The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

 

23. Consciousness: The Factory of Illusions

  1. Science's Last Frontier
  2. What Is Consciousness?
  3. Two Levels of Consciousness
  4. Qualia
  5. Feelings Are Not in the Head
  6. An Impossible Science?
  7. What it Feels Like to be a Bat and the Evolution of Qualia
  8. Cognitive Closure
  9. Infinite Knowledge
  10. Non-Event Causation
  11. The Classical Theory of Coscniousness
  12. Consciousness in the Environment
  13. Sensing the Brain
  14. Binding Brain and Consciousness
  15. The Movie in The Mind
  16. Consciousness As Self-reference
  17. The Mundane Components of Consciousness
  18. Time-Based Binding
  19. Time-Based Binding Abstracted
  20. Global Neuronal Workspace
  21. An Independent Brain
  22. Spatiotemporal Binding
  23. Reverberating Loops
  24. Concentric Consciousness
  25. The Paradox of Attention
  26. The Cartesian Theater
  27. The Social Brain
  28. The Multimind
  29. Multiple Drafts
  30. Mental Darwinism
  31. Uncentered Consciousness
  32. The Dream of Consciousness
  33. Time
  34. Thinking about Time
  35. The Deception of Consciousness
  36. Consciousness is a Place
  37. Consciousness and Complexity
  38. Between Conscious and Subconscious
  39. Degrees of Consciousness
  40. Beyond Consciousness

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Baars, Bernard: A COGNITIVE THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1988)

Baars, Bernard: IN THE THEATER OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford Univ Press, 1997)

Bateson, Gregory: MIND AND NATURE (Dutton, 1979)

Blackmore, Susan: THE MEME MACHINE (Oxford Univ Press, 1999)

Bloom, Howard: "The Lucifer Principle" (Norton, 1995)

Bloom, Howard: "Global Brain" (Wiley, 2000)

Calvin, William: HOW BRAINS THINK (Basic, 1996)

Cannon, Walter: THE WISDOM OF THE BODY (Norton, 1939)

Cohen, Jonathan & Schooler, Jonathan:  SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS (Erlbaum, 1997)

Churchland, Paul: ENGINE OF REASON (MIT Press, 1995)

Damasio, Antonio: DESCARTES' ERROR (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)

Damasio, Antonio: THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS  (Harcourt Brace, 1999)

Dawkins, Richard: THE SELFISH GENE (1976)

Dennett, Daniel: CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED (Little & Brown, 1991)

Dennett, Daniel: KINDS OF MINDS (Basic, 1998)

Deutsch David: THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY (Viking, 2011)

Dretske, Fred: NATURALIZING THE MIND (MIT Press, 1995)

Eccles, John: EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN (Routledge, 1991)

Edelman, Gerald: THE REMEMBERED PRESENT (Basic, 1989)

Edelman, Gerald: BRIGHT AIR BRILLIANT FIRE (Basic, 1992)

Edelman, Gerald & Tononi Giulio: A UNIVERSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Basic, 2000)

Farthing, G.William: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Prentice-Hall, 1992)

Festinger, Leon: THEORY OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (1957)

Flanagan, Owen: THE SCIENCE OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1991)

Flanagan, Owen: CONSCIOUSNESS RECONSIDERED (MIT Press, 1992)

Fraser, Julius: OF TIME, PASSION AND KNOWLEDGE (Princeton Univ Press, 1975)

Gazzaniga, Michael: SOCIAL BRAIN (Basic, 1985)

Gazzaniga, Michael: NATURE's MIND (Basic, 1992)

Gazzaniga, Michael: THE MIND’s PAST (Univ of California Press, 1998)

Greenfield, Susan: THE HUMAN MIND EXPLAINED (Henry Holt & Co, 1996)

Grof, Staninslav: THE HOLOTROPIC MIND (Harper, 1993)

Haldane, John: Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927)

Harth, Erich: CREATIVE LOOP (Addison-Wesley, 1993)

Hobson,  Allan: THE CHEMISTRY OF CONSCIOUS STATES (Little & Brown, 1994)

Humphrey, Nicholas: CONSCIOUSNESS REGAINED (Oxford Univ Press, 1983)

Humphrey, Nicholas: A HISTORY OF THE MIND (Simon & Schuster, 1993)

Ingebo-Barth, Denise: THE CONSCIOUS STREAM (Universal Publisher, 2000)

Jackendoff, Ray: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE COMPUTATIONAL MIND (MIT Press, 1987)

Jackson, Frank & Braddon-Mitchell, Basil: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND COGNITION (Basil Blackwell, 1996)

Kinsbourne, Marcel: TIME AND THE OBSERVER (1992)

Koch, Christof: THE QUEST FOR CONSCIOUSNESS (Roberts, 2004)

Llinas, Rodolfo & Churchland Patricia: THE MIND-BRAIN CONTINUUM (MIT Press, 1996)

Loftus, Elizabeth: "Memory" (1980)

Lycan, William: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE (MIT Press, 1996)

McGinn, Colin: THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford Univ Press, 1991)

McGinn, Colin: THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME (Oxford Univ Press, 1999)

Mead, George Herbert: MIND SELF AND SOCIETY (Univ of Chicago Press, 1934)

Mead, George Herbert: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ACT (Univ of Chicago Press, 1938)

Nagel, Thomas: MORTAL QUESTIONS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)

Nagel, Thomas: THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE (Oxford Univ Press, 1986)

Neisser, Ulric: CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT (Cambridge University Press, 1987)

Norretranders, Tor: THE USER ILLUSION (Viking, 1998)

Ornstein, Robert: MULTIMIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)

Ornstein, Robert: EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Prentice Hall, 1991)

Rosenberg, Gregg: A Place for Consciousness (Oxford Univ Press, 2004)

Romanes, George: "Mental Evolution in Animals" (1883)

Russell, Bertrand: THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY (1912)

Scott, Alwyn: STAIRWAY TO THE MIND (Copernicus, 1995)

Searle, John: THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)

Tononi, Giulio: PHI, A VOYAGE FROM THE BRAIN TO THE SOUL (Knopf Doubleday, 2012)

Tye, Michael: THE METAPHYSICS OF MIND (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Tye, Michael: TEN PROBLEMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1995)

Unger, Peter: IDENTITY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND VALUE (Oxford Univ Press, 1991)

Varela, Francisco, Thompson, Evan, Rosch, Eleanor: THE EMBODIED MIND (MIT Press, 1995)


Weber, Michel & Weekes, Anderson: Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind (SUNY Press, 2009)

Winson, Jonathan: BRAIN AND PSYCHE (Anchor Press, 1985)

Zeman, Adam: CONSCIOUSNESS (Yale Univ Press, 2002)