Acknowledgements

Contributors

Preface

I THE EXPLANATORY GAP

Introduction

David J. Chalmers

Conceivability, Identity, and the Explanatory Gap

Joseph Levine

Conceiving Beyond Our Means: The Limits of Thought Experiments

Robert Van Gulick

Realistic Materialist Monism

Galen Strawson

On the Intrinsic Nature of the Physical

Gregg H. Rosenberg

II COLOR

Introduction

David J. Chalmers

Of Color and Consciousness

Stephen Palmer

Color Quality and Color Structure

C. Larry Hardin

Pseudonormal Vision and Color Qualia

Martine Nida-Rumelin

III NEURAL CORRELATES

Introduction

Alfred W. Kaszniak

Toward a Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness

Atti Revonsuo

Neural Correlates of Hallucinogen-Induced Alerted States of Consciousness

F. X. Vollenweider

A. Gamma

M. F. I. Vollenweider-Scherpenhuyzen

First Steps toward a Theory of Mental Force: PET Imaging of Systematic Cerebral Changes after Psychological Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

IV VISION AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Introduction

David J. Chalmers

The Visual Brain in Action

A. David Milner

Melvyn A. Goodale

In Search of Immaculate Perceptiopn: Evidence from Motor Representation of Space

Yves Rossetti

Attending, Seeing, and Knowing in Blindsight

Robert W. Kentridge

C. A. Heywood

Larry Weiskrantz

Insights in to Blindsight

A. David Milner

From Grasping to Language: Mirror Neurons and the Origin of Social Communication

Vittorio Gallese

Supporting the ``Grand Illusion'' of Direct Perception: Implicit Learning in Eye-Movement Control

Frank H. Durgin

Selective Peripheral Fading: How Attention Leads to Loss of Visual Consciousness

Lianggang Lou

V EMOTION

Introduction

Alfred W. Kaszniak

Conscious Experience and Autonomic Response to Emotional Stimuli Following Frontal Lobe Damage

Alfred Kaszniak

Sheryl L. Reminger

Steven Z. Rapcsak

Elizabeth L. Glisky

At the Intersection of Emotion and Consciousness: Affective Neuroscience and Extended Reticular Thalamic Activating System (ERTAS) Theories of Consciousness

Douglas F. Watt

Laughing Rats? Playful Tickling Arouses High-Frequency Ultrasonic Chirping in Young Rodents

Jaak Panksepp

Jeffrey Burgdorf

VI EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Introduction

Stuart R. Hameroff

The Privatization of Sensation

Nicholas Humphrey

Flagging the Present Moment with Qualia

Richard L. Gragory

If Qualia Evolved...

A. Graham Crains-Smith

Handaxes and Ice Age Carvings: Hard Evidence for the Evolution of Consciousness

Steven Mithen

Ephemeral Levels of Mental Organization: Darwinian Competitions as a Basis for Consciousness

William H. Calvin

VII PHYSICAL REALITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Introduction

Stuart R. Hameroff

What Does Quantum Mechanics Imply about the Nature of the Universe?

Shimon Malin

Quantum Monadology

Kunio Yasue

The Interface in a Mixed Quantum/Classical Model of Brain Function

Scott Hagan

Masayuki Hirafuji

VIII THE TIMING OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE

Introduction

Stuart Hameroff

Do Apparent Temporal Anomalies Require Nonclassical Explanation?

Stanley A. Klein

A Quantum Physics Model of the Timing of Conscious Experience

Fred A. Wolf

Conscious and Anomalous Nonconscious Emotional Processes: A Reversal of the Arrow of Time?

Dick J. Bierman

Dean Radin

IX PHENOMENOLOGY

Introduction

Alfred Kaszniak

Exploring Actuality through Experiment and Experience

Piet Hut

Intersubjectivity: Exploring Consciousness from the Second-Person Perspective

Christian de Quincey

Goethe and the Phenomenological Investigation of Conciouness

Arthur Zajonc

Essential Dimensions of Consciousness: Objective, Subjective, and Intersubjective

Frances Vaughan

Training the Attention and Exploring Consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism

B. Alan Wallace

Transpersonal and Cognitive Psychologies of Consciousness: A Necessary and Reciprocal Dialogue

Harry T. Hunt

Biogenetic Structural Theory and the Neurophenomenology of Consciousness

Charles D. Laughlin

Experiential Clarification of the Problem of the Self

Jonathan Shear

Index