Predicate Questions (a poem)

Carol Ebbecke

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

I Phenomenology and Epistemology

Overview

1 How to Study Consciousness Scientifically

John R. Searle

2 A Science of Consciousness as If Experience Mattered

Francisco J. Varela

3 Goodbye to Reductionism

Max Velmans

4 What Can Mysticism Teach Us About Consciousness?

Robert K.C. Forman

5 Reductionism Revisited

Alwyn C. Scott

II Ontology, the Hard Problem of Experience, Free Will, and Agency

Overview

David J. Chalmers

6 The Enigma of Sentience

Michael Lockwood

7 The Myth of Double Transduction

Daniel C. Dennett

8 Brainshy: Nonneural Theories of Conscious Experience

Patricia Smith Churchland

9 Whitehead's Even More Dangerous Idea

Peter Farleigh

10 Against Functionalism: Consciousness as an Information-Bearing Medium

Bruce Mangan

11 My Experience, Your Experience, and the World We Experience: Turning the Hard Problem Upside Down

Roger N. Shepard

Piet Hut

12 The Boundary Problem for Phenomenal Individuals

Gregg H. Rosenberg

13 Folk Psychology, Science, and the Criminal Law

David Hodgson

14 Zombie Killer

Nigel J.T. Thomas

III Discussions and Debates

Overview

15 Can a Machine Be Conscious?

Danny Hillis

16 Mindless Thought Experiments: A Critique of Machine Intelligence

Jaron Lanier

17 Structure and Function

Giuseppe Vitiello

18 "More Neural Than Thou"

Stuart R. Hameroff

IV Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Overview

19 On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

David J. Chalmers

20 A Rosetta Stone for Mind and Brain?

Susan A. Greenfield

21 Locating the Subjectivity Pump: The Thalamic Intralaminar Nuclei

Joseph E. Bogen

22 Anterior Cingulate Cortex Participates in the Conscious Experience of Emotion

Richard D. Lane

Eric N. Reiman

Geoffrey L. Ahern

Gary E. Schwartz

Richard J. Davidson

Beatrice Axelrod

Lang-Sheng Yun

23 Toward the Neurobiology of Consciousness: Using Brain Imaging and Anesthesia to Investigate the Anatomy of Consciousness

Michael T. Alkire

Richard J. Haier

H. Fallon James

24 Neuronal Mechanisms of Consciousness: A Relational Global Workspace Framework

Bernard J. Baars

James Newman

John G. Taylor

25 Creeping up on the Hard Question of Consciousness

Jeffrey A. Gray

V Vision and Consciousness

Overview

Petra Stoerig

26 Varieties of Vision: From Blind Responses to Conscious Recognition

Petra Stoerig

27 Single-Neuron Activity and Visual Perception

Nikos K. Logothetis

David A. Leopold

28 Visual Imagery and Visual Perception: The Role of Memory and Conscious Awareness

Alumit Ishai and Dov Sagi

29 How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

Ned Block

30 Speeded Digit Identification under Impaired Perceptual Awareness

Syoichi Iwasaki

31 Fast Dynamics of Visibility of Brief Visual Images: The Perceptual-Retouch Viewpoint

Talis Bachmann

32 Double-Judgment Psychophysics for Research on Consciousness: Application to Blindsight

Stanley A. Klein

33 Consciousness and Commentaries

Lawrence Weiskrantz

VI Biology, Evolution, and Consciousness

Overview

34 Evolution of Intelligence, Language, and Other Emergent Processes for Consciousness: A Comparative Perspective

James E. King

Duane M. Rumbaugh

E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

35 Bacteria as Tools for Studies of Consciousness

Victor Norris

36 Nonlinear Dynamics in the Photoreceptor of the Unicellular Alga Euglena gracilis: An Application to the Evolutionary Aspects of Consciousness

Ezio M. Insinna

37 Did Consciousness Cause the Cambrian Evolutionary Explosion?

Stuart R. Hameroff

VII Anesthesiology

Overview

38 The Molecular Basis of General Anesthesia: Current Ideas

Nicholas P. Franks

William R. Lieb

39 On the Mechanism of Action of Anesthetic Agents

Hans Flohr

VIII Sleep, Dreaming, and Nonconscious Processes

Overview

40 The Conscious State Paradigm: A Neuropsychological Analysis of Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming

J. Allan Hobson

41 Dream Sleep and Waking Reality: A Dynamical View

Allan Combs

Stanley Krippner

42 Dreaming and Consciousness

Stephen LaBerge

43 Representational Momentum and Other Displacements in Memory as Evidence for Nonconscious Knowledge of Physical Principles

Timothy L. Hubbard

44 Emotion and Consciousness: A Shotgun Marriage?

Daniel S. Levine

IX Language, Animals, and Consciousness

Overview

Colin G. Beer

45 King Solomon's Ring Redivivus: Cross-Species Communication and Cognition

Colin G. Beer

46 Perspectives on Consciousness, Language, and Other Emergent Processes in Apes and Humans

E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Duane M. Rumbaugh

47 Cognition and Communication in Dolphins: A Question of Consciousness

Diana Reiss

48 Language and Mental Life

Paul Bloom

X Emergent and Hierarchical Systems

Overview

49 The Five Kinds of Levels of Description

Andrew Bailey

50 Beyond Substance and Process: A New Framework for Emergence

Syed Mustafa Ali

Robert M. Zimmer

XI Quantum Theory, Space-time, and Consciousness

Overview

51 The Evolution of Consciousness

Henry P. Stapp

52 Why Are Quantum Theorists Interested in Consciousness?

Euan J. Squires

53 Synaptic Transmission, Quantum-State Selection, and Consciousness

Friedrich Beck

54 A Sonoran Afternoon: A Discussion on the Relevance of Quantum Theory to Consciousness

Stuart R. Hameroff

Alwyn C. Scott

XII Time and Consciousness

Overview

55 Time Expansion and the Perception of Acoustic Images in the Big Brown Bat, Eptesicus fuscus

Prestor A. Saillant

James A. Simmons

56 Context, Conditioning, and Meaning of Time-Consciousness in a Trappist Monastery

Van A. Reidhead

John B. Wolford

XIII Transpersonal Psychology

Overview

57 Transpersonal Psychology and Methodologies for a Comprehensive Science of Consciousness

Charles T. Tart

58 States and Stages of Consciousness: Current Research and Understandings

Roger Walsh

XIV Parapsychology

Overview

59 Parapsychology: Fact or Fiction? Replicable Evidence for Unusual Consciousness Effects

Marilyn Schlitz

Edwin May

60 Why Psi Tells Us Nothing About Consciousness

Susan Blackmore

61 Do Psi Phenomena Suggest Radical Dualism?

Dick Bierman

XV Aesthetics and Creative Experience

Overview

62 Modeling Creativity: Taking the Evidence Seriously

Lis Nielsen

63 The Dimensions of Creativity

Aaron King

Alwyn C. Scott

64 Poetry, Mental Models, and Discordant Consciousness

Paul K. Johnston

Appendix

Index