The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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

 

24. The Physics of Consciousness

  1. A Critique of Neuroscience
  2. Quantum Consciousness
  3. Quantizing the Mind
  4. Bose-Einstein Condensates
  5. Quantum Self Theory
  6. The Ubiquity of Consciousness
  7. The Implicate Order
  8. The Mental State Of Particles
  9. Tripartite Idealism
  10. Quantum Idealism
  11. The Illusion of the Body
  12. Zero-point Consciousness
  13. Holonomic Consciousness
  14. Quantum Brain Dynamics
  15. Quantum-gravitational Consciousness
  16. The New Materialism: Naturalistic Dualism
  17. Panpsychism
  18. A General Property of Matter
  19. A Reductionist Theory of the Self

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Bohm, David: WHOLENESS AND THE IMPLICATE ORDER (Routledge, 1980)

Bohr, Niels: ATOMIC THEORY AND THE DESCRIPTION OF NATURE (1934)

Chalmers, David: THE CONSCIOUS MIND (Oxford University Press, 1996)

Chalmers, David: THE CHARACTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Culbertson, James: THE MINDS OF ROBOTS (University of Illinois Press, 1963)

Culbertson, James: SENSATIONS MEMORIES AND THE FLOW OF TIME (Cromwell Press, 1976)

De Quincey, Christian: "Radical Nature" (Invisible Cities, 2002)

Eccles, John: EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN (Routledge, 1989)

Gardenfors, Peter: HOW HOMO BECAME SAPIENS (Oxford Univ Press, 2003)

Goswami, Amit: THE SELF-AWARE UNIVERSE (Putnam, 1993)

Griffin, David: "Unsnarling the World-Knot" (University of California Press, 1998)

Herbert, Nick: ELEMENTAL MIND (Dutton, 1993)

Laszlo, Erwin: SCIENCE AND THE AKASHIC FIELD (Inner Traditions, 2004)

Lockwood, Michael: MIND, BRAIN AND THE QUANTUM (Basil Blackwell, 1989)

Marshall, I.N., Zohar, Danah: QUANTUM SOCIETY (William Morrow, 1994)

Mathews, Freya: "For Love of Matter - A Contemporary Panpsycism" (SUNY, 2003)

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

Penrose, Roger: THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1989)

Penrose, Roger: SHADOWS OF THE MIND (Oxford University Press, 1994)

Penrose, Roger and Hameroff, Stuart: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNIVERSE (Journal of Cosmology vol 14, 2011)

Popper, Karl & Eccles, John: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer, 1977)

Pribram, Karl: LANGUAGES OF THE BRAIN (Prentice Hall, 1971)

Pribram, Karl: BRAIN AND PERCEPTION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990)

Pylkkanen, Paavo: MIND, MATTER AND ACTIVE INFORMATION (Univ. of Helsinki, 1992)

Rosenblum, Bruce and Kuttner, Fred: QUANTUM ENIGMA (Oxford Univ Press, 2006)

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

Stapp, Henry: MIND, MATTER AND QUANTUM MECHANICS (Springer-Verlag, 1993)

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

Tiller, William: SCIENCE AND HUMAN TRANSFORMATION (1997)

Von Neumann, John: DIE MATHEMATISCHE GRUNDLAGEN DER QUANTENMECHANIK/ MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS (Princeton University Press, 1932)

Walker, Evan: THE PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Perseus, 2000)

Whitehead, Alfred: THE CONCEPT OF NATURE (Cambridge Univ Press, 1920)

Wolf, Fred Alan: MIND INTO MATTER (Moment Point, 2001)

Yasue, Kunio & Jibu, Mari: QUANTUM BRAIN DYNAMICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS (John Benjamins, 1995)

Zohar, Danah: QUANTUM SELF (William Morrow, 1990)