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- [Multidisciplinary Developments in Mind, Music, and Mental Health](https://www.imprint.co.uk/multidisciplinary-developments-in-mind-music-and-mental-health/) - Simon Høffding[1] and Suraiya Luecke[2],[3] Editorial Introduction In this special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies, you will find ten articles dedicated to a multidisciplinary investigation of how playing or listening to music interacts with our consciousness, and of the pervasive effects of music on mental health. How is it that musical engagement can alter,
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 33, No. 3-4, March/April 2026](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-33-no-3-4-march-april-2026/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Multidisciplinary Developments in Mind, Music, and Mental Health Sprecial Issue guest edited by Simon Høffding and Suraiya Luecke 4 About Authors 10 Editorial Introduction: Multidisciplinary Developments in Mind, Music, and Mental Health, by Simon Høffding & Suraiya Luecke 16 The Pacini System and HALF-MIS Treatment: Subsonic
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 33, No. 1-2, January/February 2026](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-33-no-1-2-january-february-2026/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities Superpsychism Special Issue guest edited by Uziel Awret 4 About Authors 9 Editorial Introduction: Superpsychism, by Uziel Awret 13 Superpsychism, by Susan Schneider & Mark Bailey 40 Theories on the Landscape: An Orthogonal Approach, by Robert Lawrence Kuhn 57 There is no mystery of consciousness,
- [Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-8/) - Uziel Awret[1] Superpsychism One of the main reasons that consciousness seems incompatible with physics is our inability to place it in space-time. On the other hand, if there is a putative ‘physics of consciousness’ it should probably depend less on space-time and more on the realization of information. The good news is that recent
- [Symposium on Introspection: First-Person Access in Science and Agency, by Maja Spener](https://www.imprint.co.uk/symposium-on-introspection-first-person-access-in-science-and-agency-by-maja-spener/) - Katia S. Franco[1] Introduction Spener’s Introspection is a special book. It is not only important, it is a revelation and a relief to read. This book brings to our attention a century-old answer to a very important but underappreciated question at the heart of both scientific and philosophical methodology, as well as our
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 32, No. 11-12, November/December 2025](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-32-no-11-12-november-december-2025/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 8 Habit, Rule-Following, and Value Sensitivity, Elisa Magrì 36 Lay Perspectives on the Physical and Non-physical Nature of Consciousness, Rachel Metzgar, Tania Lombrozo & Michael S.A. Graziano 72 Experiential Event Dualism, William S. Robinson 96 Do Large Language Models Hallucinate
- [Is consciousness conscious?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/is-consciousness-conscious/) - Amanda Cabral Is there something like being consciousness, not just like being a conscious being? Consciousness and its mystery. A source of careers, I would say. How much can one abstract about it while still being taken seriously? Much, I would say. The lack of a concrete explanation for its emergence or its practical purpose
- [Journal of Consciousness Studies: Open Access Articles](https://www.imprint.co.uk/journal-of-consciousness-studies-open-access-articles/) - See all Open Access articles published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, in chronological order, on this page. If you are looking for a specific article, you can search for this on our online repository, Ingenta, here. If you want to receive updates about new issues of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, subscribe to our mailing list here. Open Access –
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 32, No. 9-10, September/October 2025](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-32-no-9-10-september-october-2025/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Symposium: Consciousness Aesthetics 6 Phenomenal Beauty: Toward an Aesthetic of Conscious Experience Uriah Kriegel 29 Consciousness Aesthetics? Anna Giustina 75 Consciousness Aesthetics Takuya Niikawa 100 The Cosmic Soundtrack: Does Consciousness Increase or Decrease the Aesthetic Value of the Universe? Enrico Terrone 128
- [Thought Experiment: Anti-Natalism as an Experiment on the Existence (or non-existence) of ‘Souls’](https://www.imprint.co.uk/thought-experiment-anti-natalism-as-an-experiment-on-the-existence-or-non-existence-of-souls/) - Amanda Cabral Let us picture a scenario where the entire humankind concurred to sign an antinatalism agreement. This agreement would have the intent to extinguish the human race in roughly a hundred years. Those alive die, and that is it. To erase any chance of an inopportune happening occurring, that is, a baby coming to
- [Can Chalmers’ Zombie Argument be an Anti-consciousness Argument?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/can-chalmers-zombie-argument-be-an-anti-consciousness-argument/) - Amanda Cabral Once the Chalmersian Framework –consequently the Zombie argument – that positions consciousness as a separate from the physical ‘mystery’ is taken seriously, we can conclude consciousness to be an accessory. Such an accessory is non-necessary for the practical functioning of humans, since a Zombie in Chalmers’ own words “[W]ill certainly be identical to
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 32, No. 7-8, July/August 2025](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-32-no-7-8-july-august-2025/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 Quantum Panprotopsychism and the Structure and Subject-Summing Combination Problem, Rodolfo Gambini & Jorge Pullin 33 Justifying Libertarian Free Will: The Intrinsic Power of Integrated Information Theory, William Hunt 58 Temporal Intentionality of Mystical Unions and Psychotic Experiences: A Phenomenological Perspective,
- [Symposium on Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Josh Weisberg](https://www.imprint.co.uk/symposium-on-explanatory-optimism-about-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness/) - Jacob Berger[1] Editorial Introduction Since the mid-90s and throughout much of the early twenty-first century, discussion of what David Chalmers dubbed ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ dominated the field of philosophy of mind. I myself — as, no doubt, many others — was drawn to the study of philosophy after a college instructor recommended
- [Obituary](https://www.imprint.co.uk/obituary/) - Paavo Pylkkänen[1],[2] Basil Hiley (1935–2025) My dear teacher, co-author, and friend, the physicist Basil Hiley passed away on 25th January 2025. Almost 90, he was full of energy and insight, and just before Christmas we were planning a workshop to be held at University College London, where he had been working for many years,
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 32, No. 5-6, May/June 2025](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-32-no-5-6-may-june-2025/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors The Legacy of David Bohm Special Issue edited by John Pickering 8 David Bohm — A Paradoxical Legacy, by John A. Pickering 37 William James, David Bohm, and the Puzzle of Consciousness, by William Seager 62 Real Consciousness in a Real World: Interactionist
- [QUANTUM NUMINOUS](https://www.imprint.co.uk/quantum-numinous/) - The Correlation of Quantum Information (CQI) through the Observer-Wave-Particle (O-W-P) Loop Function is the Complete Provision of All Material Nature including Life and Consciousness in Space-time – The Universe QUANTUM NUMINOUS
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 32, No. 3-4, March/April 2025](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-32-no-3-4-march-april-2025/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 Evidence for Sentience in Reptiles, Noam Miller 34 Time, Memory, and the Physical Basis of Consciousness, James A. Reggia 63 Epiphenomenalism and Evolution: Response to John Wright, William S. Robinson 79 Emergent Will, Jan Scheffel 106 Together-Knowing: A Sensorimotor Social
- [Introduction: Author-Meets-Critics Collection on David Pitt’s The Quality of Thought](https://www.imprint.co.uk/introduction-author-meets-critics-collection-on-david-pitts-the-quality-of-thought/) - Mark Balaguer[1] This author-meets-critics collection is focused on David Pitt’s inter­esting and important book, The Quality of Thought. The central thesis of Pitt’s book is the following: [PT] Thinking is a kind of experience — or, in other words, thoughts have a phenomenology — and this phenomenology determines the contents of our thoughts.
- [Open Access Article](https://www.imprint.co.uk/open-access-article/) - Can Lists of Requirements Help Consciousness Research Navigate Its Epistemological Quandaries? Chris Percy https://www.imprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Percy_Open_Access.pdf
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 32, No. 1-2, January/February 2025](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-32-no-1-2-january-february-2025/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 A Neuroscientific Image of Human Beings Worth Standing Up For: The Nested Assumptions of ‘You Are (Not) Your Brain’, by Pieter F. Craffert 31 Testing the Robustness of Accurate Intuitive Abilities and Assessment of Reproducibility with a Group of Potentially
- [a thought experiment: Is Light Sentient?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/a-thought-experiment-is-light-sentient/) - Michael A Gulley mgulley1999@yahoo.com.au Is it possible for entangled photons to meet the definition of being alive? Anesthetics are known to affect all forms of life to the extent that the famous physiologist Claude Bernard concluded in 1874 “that all life is defined by the susceptibility to anesthesia”. The question could be asked “can light
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 31, No. 11-12, November/December 2024](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-31-no-11-12-november-december-2024/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 No Exceptionalism: Norms of Inquiry in the Science of Animal Consciousness Charles Aaron Beasley 32 Consciousness: An Energy-Based Approach to Information Generation Antoine Beaudoin 60 Sharing Vitality at the Moments of Meeting Wei Chen, Tongwei Liu & Da Dong 85
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 31, No. 9-10, September/October 2024](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-31-no-9-10-september-october-2024/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Cosmopsychism Special Issue edited by Andrei A. Buckareff and Philip Goff 7 Editorial Introduction, Andrei A. Buckareff & Philip Goff 10 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Panpsychism, Michael Tye 29 Perception, Evolution, and the Explanatory Scope of Scientific Theories,
- [Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-7/) - Andrei A. Buckareff[1] and Philip Goff[2] The articles in this issue are devoted to the question of whether con­sciousness is a fundamental feature of reality. In recent years the physicalist orthodoxy in the science and philosophy of consciousness has been challenged by a panpsychist insurgency (Chalmers, 2016; Goff, 2017; 2019), panpsychism being the view that
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 31, No. 7 – 8, July/August 2024](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-31-no-7-8-july-august-2024/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 Illusionism and a Posteriori Physicalism: No Fact of the Matter Christopher Brown & David Papineau 28 The Real ‘Hard Problem’ of Consciousness: Where Do Thoughts Come From, If Not the Brain? Paul F. Cunningham 55 Does Consciousness Have Dimensions?
- [Editorial](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial/) - Carlos Montemayor[1] Symposium on Movements of the Mind by Wayne Wu Movements of the Mind offers a compelling and empirically grounded theory of agency and attention, arguing that the structure of action depends on the capacity of attention. This capacity is also central to the explanation of how memory can be geared towards immediate
- [Is Subjectless Consciousness Possible?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/is-subjectless-consciousness-possible/) - Christian Coseru[1] Introduction An Outline of the Contributions In ‘The Impossibility of Subjectless Experience’, Galen Strawson sets the scope for the special issue by clarifying the key concepts of subject and subjectivity, the difference between metaphysical and phenomenological conceptions of the subject, and whether the subject of experience can be conceived as something distinct from
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 31, No. 5 – 6, May/June 2024](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-31-no-5-6-may-june-2024/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Is Subjectless Consciousness Possible? Special Issue edited by Christian Coseru 3 About Authors 6 Introduction: Is Subjectless Consciousness Possible? Christian Coseru 26 The Impossibility of Subjectless Experience Galen Strawson 37 Minimal Subjectivity and Reflexive Awareness Matthew MacKenzie 62 Can There Be Something it is Like to
- [The Irrelevance of the Mind-Body Problem to Human Behaviour](https://www.imprint.co.uk/the-irrelevance-of-the-mind-body-problem-to-human-behaviour/) - Summary In this article I argue that the mind-body problem, despite appearances, is not relevant to providing coherent accounts of human behaviour. For the purpose of giving adequate causal explanations of human behaviour, there is no need to resort to the distinction between mind and body, and no need to become involved in the difficulties
- [New Course: The New Science of Plant Intelligence](https://www.imprint.co.uk/new-course-the-new-science-of-plant-intelligence/) - Join us for a thought-provoking exploration that promises to change how you view the natural world. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence By Prof. Paco Calvo, director of MINT Lab Tue, 6/18-7/2. 5:00-6:00 PM CEST https://roundtable.org/live-courses/science/planta-sapiens-the-new-science-of-plant-intelligence Quick overview This course invites participants to embark on a transformative journey into the
- [Sentientism Still Under Threat](https://www.imprint.co.uk/sentientism-still-under-threat/) - François Kammerer[1] Reply to Dung Abstract: In ‘Ethics Without Sentience: Facing Up to the Probable Insignificance of Phenomenal Consciousness’ (Kammerer, 2022), I argued that phenomenal consciousness is probably normatively insignificant, and does not play a significant normative role. In ‘Preserving the Normative Significance of Sentience’ (Dung, 2024), Leonard Dung challenges my reasoning and defends
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 31, No. 3 – 4, March/April 2024](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-31-no-3-4-march-april-2024/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 The Phenomenology of ChatGPT: A Semiotics, Thomas Byrne 28 The Nested States Model: An Empirical Framework for Integrating Brain and Mind, George H. Denfield & Evan J. Kyzar 56 How Exactly Does Panpsychism Help Explain Consciousness?, Philip Goff 83
- [Ivo Mosley: Author and Poetry Editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies](https://www.imprint.co.uk/ivo-mosley-author-and-poetry-editor-of-the-journal-of-consciousness-studies/) - We are sad to hear of the passing of one of our authors and editors, Ivo Mosley. This obituary in The Telegraph pays tribute to the life, career, and artistry of Mosley, and we would like to highlight some sections that reflect his relationship with Imprint Academic: 'Ivo Mosley recalled growing up with “a
- [Triple Definition or Explanation of Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/triple-definition-or-explanation-of-consciousness/) - Xinyan Zhang say2xy@gmail.com Abstract: A system is described ontologically, epistemologically, and semantically in this paper, with matter, energy and lives as its components, and with all its components defined as changes, which might be useful for us to define or explain consciouness. Keywords: consciousness; definition; epistemology; explanation; life; mind; ontology; semantics Main text: Introduction It
- [Embracing the Noncommutative Consciousness Revolution](https://www.imprint.co.uk/embracing-the-noncommutative-consciousness-revolution/) - Drew Hempel, MA EcoEcho, 2024 Summary: We live in an accelerating “high technology” globalized culture, yet it is too often ignored that mathematics is the structural drive of our technological innovations. Since consciousness has remained the untouched last unconquered territory of science then we should recognize it as the inextricably interwoven dynamic of our externalized
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 31, No. 1 – 2, January/February 2024](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-31-no-1-2-january-february-2024/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 8 Preserving the Normative Significance of Sentience Leonard Dung 31 Measuring Phenomenal Consciousness in Delirium: The New Black Eamonn Eeles, Andrew Teodorczuk & Nadeeka Dissanayaka 51 A Simple, Testable Mind–Body Solution? Mostyn Jones 76 Introspection in Emotion Research: Challenges and Insights
- [Book Reviews](https://www.imprint.co.uk/book-reviews-2/) - Paco Calvo and Natalie Lawrence Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence London: Hachette, 2022, 304 pp. ISBN: 9780349128450 Reviewed by Uziel Awret The Haggadic sages of old said that ‘Seekers of wisdom should not live in a city devoid of plants’. What is it about entering a cool garden or greeting the Jasmine plant in
- [Upcoming Issue of JCS: The Legacy of Francisco Varela](https://www.imprint.co.uk/upcoming-issue-of-jcs-the-legacy-of-francisco-varela/) - Read on to find out about our upcoming special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on ‘The Legacy of Francisco Varela’, and to hear all the latest updates related to JCS. Upcoming Release: ‘The Legacy of Francisco Varela’, vol. 30, number 11-12, ed. by Sebastjan Vörös The next release of JCS focuses on ‘The
- [On What is Always Before Our Eyes: The Uncharted Depths of Francisco Varela’s Thought](https://www.imprint.co.uk/on-what-is-always-before-our-eyes-the-uncharted-depths-of-francisco-varelas-thought/) - Sebastjan Vörös[1] What we are supplying are really remarks on the natural history of man; not curiosities, however, but rather observations on facts which no one has doubted & which have only gone unremarked because they are always before our eyes. (Wittgenstein, 1956, §141) The Chilean biologist, cognitive scientist, and philosopher, Francisco Javier Varela (1946–2001),
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 30, No. 11 – 12, November/December 2023](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-30-no-11-12-november-december-2023/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities The Legacy of Francisco Varela Special Issue edited by Sebastjan Vörös 3 About Authors 7 Introduction: On What is Always Before Our Eyes: The Uncharted Depths of Francisco Varela’s Thought Sebastjan Vörös 17 At the Cradle of Things: The Act of Distinction and Francisco Varela’s Non-Dualist
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 30, No. 9 – 10, September/October 2023](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-30-no-9-10-september-october-2023/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities What Forms Could Introspective Systems Take? Special Issue edited by François Kammerer and Keith Frankish 4 About Authors 9 Editorial Introduction: Possible Introspective Systems François Kammerer & Keith Frankish Target Article 13 What Forms Could Introspective Systems Take? A Research Programme François Kammerer & Keith Frankish
- [Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-6/) - François Kammerer[1] and Keith Frankish[2] Possible Introspective Systems Humans introspect: they represent their own current mental states in a way that allows for online behavioural control. And the psychological and epistemological specificities of exactly how they do so have long fascinated philosophers and scientists, playing a key role in various metaphysical and methodological debates
- [Emotional Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/19070-2/) - Raamy Majeed[1] Introduction The conscious experience of emotion, or ‘emotional consciousness’ for short, is what makes emotions so significant from a first-person point of view. For some philosophers, such as Robert Solomon (2007), emotions — understood as conscious phenomena — are nothing short of what give our lives meaning. But how exactly should we understand
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 30, No. 7 – 8, July/August 2023](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-30-no-7-8-july-august-2023/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Emotional Consciousness Special Issue edited by Raamy Majeed 3 About Authors 6 Introduction: Emotional Consciousness Raamy Majeed 13 The Phenomenology of Emotional Expression Joel Smith 36 Exploring Affective-Evaluative Horizons Jonathan Mitchell 61 Personal Intentionalism and the Understanding of Emotion Experience Sarah Arnaud & Kathryn Pendoley 88
- [Indigenous Philosophies of Consciousness: Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/indigenous-philosophies-of-consciousness-editorial-introduction/) - Radek Trnka[1] and Radmila Lorencova[2] Indigenous Philosophies of Consciousness Indigenous understandings of consciousness represent an important inspiration for scientific discussions about the nature of conscious­ness. Despite the fact that Indigenous concepts are not outputs of research driven by rigorous, scientific methods, they are of high significance, because they have been formed by hundreds of years
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 30, No. 5 – 6, May/June 2023](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-30-no-5-6-may-june-2023/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies. Controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 9 Could You Have Thought Differently? An Argument Against Free Will Nicolas Alzetta 32 Quantum Indeterminism, Free Will, and Self-Causation Marco Masi 57 Responding to a Potpourri of Objections to the Modal Argument J.P. Moreland 75 Empirical Panpsychism: A New
- [Précis of Thinking and Perceiving](https://www.imprint.co.uk/precis-of-thinking-and-perceiving/) - Dustin Stokes[1] To be in the world is to be in contact with it. Whether animate or inanimate, worldly objects seem to be objects that can be in contact with other objects. This may just be what it means to say that some­thing is in the world. This is the provocative bit of metaphysics with
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 30, No. 3 – 4, March/April 2023](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-30-no-3-4-march-april-2023/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 Continuous Organismic Sentience as the Integration of Core Affect and Vitality Ignacio Cea & David Martínez-Pernía 34 What is an Identity Crisis? Nada Gligorov 59 Unconscious Intelligence in the Skilled Control of Expert Action Spencer Ivy 84 The ALARM
- [A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-consciousness/) - Etzel Cardeña[1] Max Velmans at 80 Years of Age ‘I eventually discovered the universe of the individual psyche to be far more interesting and unfathomable than I could possibly have imagined.’ (Velmans, 2017, p. 12) This Special Issue celebrates the 80th birthday of Max Leopold Velmans, born in Amsterdam during the German occupation. Forced
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 30, No. 1 – 2, January/February 2023](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-30-no-1-2-january-february-2023/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies. Controversies in science & the humanities A Festschrift for Max Velmans Special Issue edited by Etzel Cardeña 3 About Authors 7 A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Consciousness: Max Velmans at 80 Years of Age Etzel Cardeña 21 Neurobiological Underpinnings of the Projection of Conscious Contents Alfredo Pereira Jr. 43 Velmans and the
- [The Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize.](https://www.imprint.co.uk/the-linda-g-obryant-noetic-sciences-research-prize/) - This annual prize of $100,000 will be given to an individual or team whose research advances leading-edge science around consciousness, expanding our global reach. For details, please click the link below. https://noetic.org/prize/
- [James Lovelock and Consciousness. An Obituary](https://www.imprint.co.uk/18321-2/) - Dorion Sagan James Ephraim Lovelock (1919–2022), most famous for postulating the Gaia hypothesis, which argues that Earth life as a whole resembles a coherent living being, regulating its reactive atmospheric chemistry, global mean temperature, and other environmental variables through the mutual action of life, died on his birthday, 26 July; symbolically, his life thus comes
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 29, No. 11 - 12, November/December 2022](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-29-no-11-12-november-december-2022/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 8 Facing Up to the Problem of Affect Nathaniel F. Barrett 29 The Complex Phenomenology of Episodic Memory: Felt Connections, Multimodal Perspectivity, and Multifaceted Selves Roy Dings & Christopher Jude McCarroll 56 Human Intelligence and Exceptionalism Revisited by a Philosopher: 100
- [Understanding Grief: Feeling, Intentionality, Regulation, and Interpretation](https://www.imprint.co.uk/understanding-grief-feeling-intentionality-regulation-and-interpretation/) - Matthew Ratcliffe,[1] Becky Millar1 and Louise Richardson1 Introduction This collection of articles arose out of the project ‘Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience’, funded by the UK Arts and Humani­ties Research Council (grant ref. AH/T000066/1). The broad aims of the project are to draw on the resources of philosophy and other disciplines in order to
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 29, No. 9 - 10, September/October 2022](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-29-no-9-10-september-october-2022/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Understanding Grief: Feeling, Intentionality, Regulation, and Interpretation Special Issue edited by Matthew Ratcliffe, Becky Millar, and Louise Richardson 3 About Authors 7 Introduction Matthew Ratcliffe, Becky Millar & Louise Richardson 13 The ‘Pain’ of Grief Jennifer Radden 36 ‘Rather than Succour, My Memories Bring Eloquent Stabs
- [Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/introduction/) - John Bickle[1] New mechanical philosophy, or ‘new mechanism’ — ‘a framework for thinking about the philosophical assumptions underlying many areas of science, especially in sciences such as biology, neuroscience, and psychology’ (Craver and Tabery, 2015) — now entering its third decade, took philosophy of science by storm. Lately, however, challenges have multiplied. Can new mechanism
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 29, No. 7-8, July/August 2022](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-29-no-7-8-july-august-2022/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 The Phenomenal Concept Strategy Cannot Explain Problem Intuitions Marcelino Botin 32 Modelling Subjective Consciousness: A Guide for the Perplexed Peter Burgess 57 Against the Explanatory Argument for Enactivism Leonard Dung 69 Psychedelics, Atheism, and Naturalism: Myth and Reality Chris Letheby
- [Book Review](https://www.imprint.co.uk/book-review-2/) - John Higgs William Blake vs. the World London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 2021, 400 pp. ISBN: 9781474614351 Reviewed by Chris Nunn This is an exceptional biography: one that shows its author to have talents more than equal to elucidating those of his subject. William Blake (1757–1827), poet, artist, visionary, and supposed madman, also invented a method
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 29, No. 5-6, May/June 2022](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-29-no-5-6-may-june-2022/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 8 Attempt to Replicate Bem’s Precognitive Avoidance Task and Detect Relationships with Trait Anxiety Sarika Arora, Mike Schmidt, James Boylan & Spiro P. Pantazatos 21 Alteration of Consciousness by Anaesthetics: A Multiscale Modulation from the Molecular to the Systems Level
- [How Should We Study Animal Consciousness Scientifically?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/how-should-we-study-animal-consciousness-scientifically/) - Jonathan Birch 1. Introduction Other sculptors, other statues from the same stone! Other minds, other worlds from the same monotonous and inexpressive chaos! My world is but one in a million alike embedded, alike real to those who may abstract them. How different must be the worlds in the consciousness of ant, cuttle-fish, or crab!
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 29, No. 3-4, March/April 2022](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-29-no-3-4-march-april-2022/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Animal Consciousness Special Issue edited by Jonathan Birch, Heather Browning, Andrew Crump & Matthias Michel 4 About Authors 8 How Should We Study Animal Consciousness Scientifically? Jonathan Birch et al. How does the evolution of consciousness relate to the evolution of cognition? 29 The Futures of
- [New Book - Democracy in Crisis](https://www.imprint.co.uk/new-book-democracy-in-crisis/) - DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS Lessons from Ancient Athens By Jeff Miller The storming of the US Capitol building in January 2021 focused attention on the multiple threats facing contemporary liberal democracies. Beyond the immediate problem of Covid-19, the past two decades saw political polarization, a dramatic rise in inequality, global warming and other environmental threats, as
- [Divine Madness: On the Aetiology of Romantic Obsession](https://www.imprint.co.uk/divine-madness-on-the-aetiology-of-romantic-obsession/) - Keith Sutherland Abstract: The paper opens with a brief overview of ‘limerence’ or obsessive love disorder (OLD) from the perspectives of psychology, neurology, anthropology, and sociology, but concludes that certain unique characteristics of the condition suggest that it is better under­stood as a form of ‘divine madness’, resulting from the failure of the Platonic ascent
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 29, No. 1-2, January/February 2022](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-29-no-1-2-january-february-2022/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 Do Biopsychosocial Causal Models Rule Out Physicalism? Tudor M. Baetu 30 An Adaptational Theory of Consciousness Charles F. Detmar 56 Integrated Information Theory as Testing Ground for Causation: Why Nested Hylomorphism Overcomes Physicalism and Panpsychism Javier Sánchez-Cañizares 79 Divine Madness:
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- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 28, No. 11-12, November/December 2021](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-28-no-11-12-november-december-2021/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 What Blindsight Means for the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Michael Barkasi 31 Integrated Information Theory, Intrinsicality, and Overlapping Conscious Systems James C. Blackmon 54 How Judgments of Visual Resemblance are Induced by Visual Experience Alon Chasid & Alik Pelman
- [What Kind of Brain Activity is Sufficient for Consciousness?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/what-kind-of-brain-activity-is-sufficient-for-consciousness/) - Logan Trujillo[1] Editorial Introduction Symposium on The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness In this issue of JCS, we are pleased to present a symposium for the new book, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Conscious­ness, by Dr Mark Solms, Director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town,
- [Response to Sean Carroll oct 2021](https://www.imprint.co.uk/response-to-sean-carroll-oct-2021/) - Verna Muitt responding to an article in the vol. 28 no 9 - 10 (2021) issue I’m somewhat bemused by the picture painted by Sean Carroll of a simple causal chain where Pi is some physical state, Mi is some mental state, Bi is some behaviour, and ‘→’ stands for ‘inevitably leads to’. Contemplating
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 28, No. 9-10, September/October 2021](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-28-no-9-19-september-october-2021/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays on Panpsychism Special Issue edited by Philip Goff and Alex Moran 4 About Authors 9 Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays on Panpsychism Philip Goff & Alex Moran 1. The Scientists 16 Consciousness and the Laws of Physics Sean Carroll 32 Relations and Panpsychism
- [Is Consciousness Everywhere?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/is-consciousness-everywhere/) - Philip Goff[1] and Alex Moran[2] Essays on Panpsychism 1. Introduction The mind–body problem, broadly speaking, is the challenge of under­standing how the conscious mind relates to the physical world. On the one hand, it seems that there is nothing more familiar to us, nothing we know better, than the phenomenon of consciousness. On the
- [Introduction:  Special Issue on Sentience and Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/introduction-special-issue-on-sentience-and-consciousness/) - Leonardo Ferreira Almada[1] and Karina J. Linnell[2] It is with great pleasure that we present this special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. The issue had its inception in London after Alfredo Pereira Jr. stayed for six months as Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London and gave an Alfred North Whitehead lecture there
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 28, No. 7-8, July/August 2021](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-28-no-7-8-july-august-2021/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Sentience and Consciousness Special Issue edited by Karina J. Linnell and Leonardo Ferreira Almada 4 About Authors 9 Introduction Leonardo Ferreira Almada & Karina J. Linnell 18 Preface Antonio Damasio & Hanna Damasio Target Paper 22 The Role of Sentience in the Theory of Consciousness and
- [How an experiment about consciousness in rhesus monkeys may imply two kinds of cognitive processing](https://www.imprint.co.uk/how-an-experiment-about-consciousness-in-rhesus-monkeys-may-imply-two-kinds-of-cognitive-processing/) - David L. Boyer Author's c.v.: David L. Boyer. B.A. 1968, Yale College. M.S. 1970, Pacific Lutheran University. Ph.D. 1977, Boson University. Taught in the Philosophy Department at St. Cloud State University, 1976-2006. Abstract: M.S. Ben-Haim et al. have shown that rhesus monkeys, like humans, can be visually conscious: both guess differently, left or right, about
- [Motion Perception and the Temporal Metaphysics of Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/motion-perception-and-the-temporal-metaphysics-of-consciousness/) - Henry Pollock and Samantha Strong Abstract: This paper defends a ‘punctivist’ conception of conscious­ness from recent attacks by Ian Phillips and Matthew Soteriou. As we intend it, ‘punctivism’ is the view that a subject’s experience over some interval is determined by their experiential states at each instant during it. Phillips and Soteriou both offer ingenious
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 28, No. 5-6, May/June 2021](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-28-no-5-6-may-june-2021/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 Illusions of Affection: A Hyper-Illusory Account of Normative Valence Mihailis E. Diamantis 30 Mechanical Keyboards and Crystal Arrows: Incorporation in Esports David Ekdahl 58 Critique of the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Or, the Relevance of Ontological Information Ari Peuhu
- [Default Hypotheses in the Study of Perception](https://www.imprint.co.uk/default-hypotheses-in-the-study-of-perception/) - Jacob Berger[1] and Myrto Mylopoulos[2] A Reply to Phillips Abstract: Some theorists have recently raised doubts about much of the experimental evidence purporting to demonstrate the existence of unconscious perception. In our 2019 article in this journal, we argued that some of these considerations are not decisive. Phillips (2021) replies thoughtfully to our paper, concluding
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 28, No. 2-4, March/April 2021](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-28-no-2-4-march-april-2021/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 8 Is the Sun Conscious? Rupert Sheldrake 29 Does Synchronicity Point Us Towards the Fundamental Nature of Consciousness? Bethany Butzer 55 Do People Think Consciousness Poses a Hard Problem? Empirical Evidence on the Meta-Problem of Consciousness Rodrigo Díaz 76 Proximal
- [Plant Sentience: Theoretical and Empirical Issues](https://www.imprint.co.uk/plant-sentience-theoretical-and-empirical-issues/) - Vicente Raja[1] and Miguel Segundo-Ortín[2] Editorial Introduction A recurrent trend in philosophy and the sciences of the mind is to explore whether organisms and physical entities that, for different reasons, have been deemed as cognitively uninteresting at some point in history can now be characterized as cognitive agents. Chief examples of this trend are the earlier
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 28, No. 1-2, January/February 2021](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-28-no-1-2-january-february-2021/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Plant Sentience: Theoretical and Empirical Issues Special Issue edited by Vicente Raja and Miguel Segundo-Ortín 3 About Authors 7 Plant Sentience: Theoretical and Empirical Issues — Editorial Introduction Vicente Raja & Miguel Segundo-Ortín 17 Sentience in Plants: A Green Red Herring? Simona Ginsburg & Eva Jablonka
- [Naturalism and the Beauty of Near-Death Experiences  Replies to Commentators](https://www.imprint.co.uk/naturalism-and-the-beauty-of-near-death-experiences-replies-to-commentators/) - John Martin Fischer [Truncated version of the published piece; please see its“References” section for full citations] I am very grateful for the thoughtful engagement with my work by all of the commentators. NDEs are complex and multi-faceted phenomena, not easily studied (in part because their phenomenology is inaccessible to third parties), and thus it
- [Qualitative Memory  A Response to Commentators](https://www.imprint.co.uk/qualitative-memory-a-response-to-commentators/) - Barbara Gail Montero I thank Sabrina Coninx, Felipe De Brigard, and L.A. Paul for their thoughtful and thought-provoking comments and welcome the opportunity to clarify, develop and, yes, at times emend some of my key points in response to their insights. It is gratifying to interact with such accomplished researchers, and I am certain
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 27, No. 11-12, November/December 2020](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-27-no-11-12-november-december-2020/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 8 Quantum-Level Experience in Neural Dendrites: An Interpretation-Neutral Model Jonathan C.W. Edwards 30 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness are Empirically False Nathaniel Greely 55 Calculating the Boundaries of Consciousness in General Resonance Theory Tam Hunt 81 Forests, Trees, and Aesthetic Attention:
- [Book Review](https://www.imprint.co.uk/book-review/) - Richard Arthur The Reality of Time Flow Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019, 279 pp. ISBN 9783030159467 Reviewed by Jo Edwards University College London A key aspect of consciousness is that it is in the present. I am con­scious now. Einstein claimed now does not exist in physics. So, what is ‘the present’? Does time really exist?
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 27, No. 9-10, September/October 2020](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-27-no-910-september-october-2020/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 Psychedelic Experience and the Narrative Self: An Exploratory Qualitative Study Nicole Amada, Toby Lea, Chris Letheby & Jacob Shane 34 Emotional Consciousness in Autism Sarah Arnaud 60 The Perception of (Musical) Metre Philip Boast 87 Derivatives and Consciousness David
- [Explaining the Empiricist Bias](https://www.imprint.co.uk/explaining-the-empiricist-bias/) - Peter Carruthers Reply to Berent Abstract: Berent (this issue) critiques one of the three main proposals put forward by Carruthers (this issue), who suggests that cognitive scientists are biased against innateness-claims by the tacit assump­tions of the mentalizing faculty. Berent proposes, instead, that the bias results from dissonance produced by a conflict between our
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 27, No. 7-8, July/August 2020](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-27-no-7-8-july-august-2020/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 Perception, Emotion, and the Interconnected Mind Matthew Fulkerson 31 Stock Returns and the Mind: An Unlikely Result that Could Change Our Understanding of Consciousness Ulf Holmberg 50 Self-Consciousness as a Product of Biological Evolution Bernard Korzeniewksi 77 Thick NCCs
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 27, No. 5-6, May/June 2020](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-27-no-5-6-may-june-2020/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities The Meta-Problem of Consciousness: Responses to David Chalmers, Part Two Special Issue edited by François Kammerer 4 About Authors 8 Editorial Introduction François Kammerer 14 How Colour Qualia Became a Problem Zed Adams & Jacob Browning 26 Soft-Wired Illusionism vs. the Meta-Problem of Consciousness Adam
- [Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-5/) - François Kammerer More Debates on the Meta-Problem of Consciousness The meta-problem of consciousness, according to David Chalmers, is (roughly) the problem of explaining why we think there is a hard problem of consciousness. In his paper titled ‘The Meta-Problem of Consciousness’ published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 2018, Chalmers presented this meta-problem, examined
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 27, No. 3-4, March/April 2020](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-27-no-3-4-march-april-2020/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Acting Ahead of Actuality: On the Temporally Extended Mind Special Issue edited by Zdravko Radman 3 About Authors 7 Editorial Introduction: Acting Ahead of Actuality: Emancipation from Immediacy Zdravko Radman 11 Anchoring Know-How: Action, Affordance, and Anticipation Shaun Gallagher & Benjamin Aguda 38 Anticipatory Action:
- [Acting Ahead of Actuality: Emancipation from Immediacy](https://www.imprint.co.uk/acting-ahead-of-actuality-emancipation-from-immediacy/) - Zdravko Radman Editorial Introduction What we have, in the course of the evolution of ideas and general philosophical understanding, sometimes considered to be least dis­putable is the ‘givenness’ of the world to which we relate in some supposedly straightforward way, and also the immediacy of its emergence in our minds. For too long we
- [Book Review from the latest issue of JCS](https://www.imprint.co.uk/book-review-from-the-latest-issue-of-jcs/) - Eric Kandel The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018, 285 pp. (Hardcover) ISBN: 9780374287863 Reviewed by Donald Mender Eric Kandel’s recent book, The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves, provides a superb, assiduously docu­mented, up-to-date synopsis of neuroscientific progress toward under­standing the
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 27, No. 1-2, January/February 2020](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-27-no-1-2-january-february-2020/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 7 Mind-Wandering and the Field of Consciousness Peter Crout 34 Psychedelic Pharmacology Primitive and Bourgeois Thomas M. Falk 57 Seeing Entities without Seeing N-Entities Gabriele Ferretti & Francesco Marchi 71 Envisioning Intention-Oriented Brain-to-Speech Decoding Leon Li, Jared Vasil & Serban
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- [Table of Contents: Vol. 26, No. 11-12, November/December 2019](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-26-no-11-12-november-december-2019/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 8 On Scepticism about Unconscious Perception Jacob Berger & Myrto Mylopoulos 33 The Empirical Status of the Pictorial View of Meaning Fabrizio Calzavarini 60 Locating Consciousness: Why Experience Can’t Be Objectified Thomas W. Clark 86 Physicalism, Supernaturalism, and Near-Death Experiences:
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 26, No. 9-10, September/October 2019](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-26-no-9-10-september-october-2019/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities The Meta-Problem of Consciousness: Responses to David Chalmers, Part One Special Issue edited by François Kammerer 4 About Authors 8 Editorial Introduction François Kammerer 19 Bayesing Qualia Andy Clark, Karl Friston & Sam Wilkinson 34 Undermining Belief in Consciousness Justin Clarke-Doane 48 Welcome to Strong
- [Editorial Introduction - Debates on the Meta-Problem of Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-debates-on-the-meta-problem-of-consciousness/) - François Kammerer The meta-problem of consciousness, according to David Chalmers, is (roughly) the problem of explaining why we think there is a problem of consciousness. In his paper, titled ‘The Meta-Problem of Con­sciousness’, published last year in this journal, David Chalmers did a great service to the field of consciousness studies by laying down
- [Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-4/) - Terje Sparby and Ulrich W. Weger Research on meditation and mindfulness is continuing to attract sig­nificant interest both within and outside of the academic community. How can phenomenology and philosophy contribute to this research? This special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies approaches this question from many different angles. There is an ambiguity connected
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 26, No. 7-8, July/August 2019](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-26-no-7-8-july-august-2019/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Phenomenological, Philosophical, and Scientific Perspectives on Meditation Special Issue edited by Terje Sparby and Ulrich Weger 4 About Authors 8 Editorial Introduction Terje Sparby & Ulrich W. Weger 12 The Mystic and the Metaphysician: Clarifying the Role of Meditation in the Search for Ultimate Reality
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 26, No. 5-6, May/June 2019](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-26-no-5-6-may-june-2019/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 Masked Priming in Semantic Selection Tasks Reveals ‘Feeling of Knowing’ Experiences but No Subliminal Perception Robin Døngart & Søren Kyllingsbæk 35 Reviewing Tests for Machine Consciousness Aïda Elamrani & Roman V. Yampolskiy 65 The Physical as Nomalous Jonah Goldwater
- [Learning from the Past[1]](https://www.imprint.co.uk/learning-from-the-past1/) - Alexandria Boyle Epistemic Generativity and the Function of Episodic Memory Abstract: I argue that the function of episodic memory is to store information about the past, against the orthodox view that it is to support imagining the future. I show that episodic memory is epistemically generative, allowing organisms to learn from past events retroactively.
- [Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-3/) - Max Jones, Takuya Niikawa and Roly Perera Representing Ourselves: Reflexive Approaches to the Function of Consciousness This special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies brings together work from a range of philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, behavioural scientists, and computer scientists who are all united in their approach to answering questions about con­sciousness. The contributions
- [Table of Contents: Vol. 26, No. 3-4, March/April 2019](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-vol-26-no-3-4-march-april-2019/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Representing Ourselves: Reflexive Approaches to the Function of Consciousness Special Issue edited by Max Jones, Takuya Niikawa and Roly Perera 4 About Authors 8 Editorial Introduction Max Jones, Takuya Niikawa & Roly Perera 17 Attributing Awareness to Others: The Attention Schema Theory and Its Relationship
- [Quantum Spontaneity and the Development of Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/quantum-spontaneity-and-the-development-of-consciousness/) - There are several issues I touched on in passing in my paper “Quantum Spontaneity and the Development of Consciousness” (JCS 26, No. 1-2 2019, pp. 216-34) that I hoped would stimulate some discussion. The principles I’m reviewing here are foundational of most scientific-materialist theories of consciousness, and deserve to be considered independent of my own
- [Is it a Problem that Physics is Mathematical?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/is-it-a-problem-that-physics-is-mathematical/) - Philip Goff Abstract: In her paper ‘Does the Mathematical Nature of Physics Undermine Physicalism?’ Susan Schneider draws attention to a much neglected challenge to physicalism, arising from its mathematical vocabulary. Whilst I agree with Schneider that the mathematical nature of physics is a concern for the physicalist, I disagree with her concerning the essence
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 24, No. 11-12, November/December 2017](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-24-no-11-12-november-december-2017/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 Transfer of Personality to a Synthetic Human (‘Mind Uploading’) and the Social Construction of Identity Sim Bamford & John Danaher 31 A Properly Physical Russellian Physicalism Christopher Devlin Brown 51 Microgenetic Theory of Perception, Memory, and the Mental State
- [Book Reviews](https://www.imprint.co.uk/book-reviews/) - Godehard Brüntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla (eds.) Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 424 pp. ISBN: 978-0199359943 Reviewed by David Skrbina It is a striking fact that, despite growing interest in panpsychism over the past two decades, there have been very few books dedicated to the subject. Among the four or five
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 25, No. 1-2, January/February 2018](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-25-no-1-2-january-february-2018/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Freeman Neurodynamics: From Populations of Neurons to Consciousness Special Issue edited by Hans Liljenström 4 About Authors 8 Editorial Introduction Hans Liljenström 13 Freeman Neurodynamics: The Past 25 Years Steven Bressler, Leslie Kay, Robert Kozma, Hans Liljenström & Giuseppe Vitiello Shorter Personal Notes 33 Walter
- [Editorial Introduction from Latest Issue of JCS](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-from-latest-issue-of-jcs/) - Hans Liljenström Walter J. Freeman (1927–2016) was an influential American neuro­scientist who developed a unique way of interpreting brain processes, perception, cognition, and intentionality. He was born in 1927 in Washington DC, received an M.D. from Yale University in 1954, and completed a postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at the University of California, Los Angeles,
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 25, No. 3-4, March/April 2018](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-25-no-3-4-march-april-2018/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in science & the humanities 4 About Authors Refereed Papers 9 Writer’s Block Revisited: A Micro-Phenomenological Case Study on the Blocking Influence of an Internalized Voice Eva Bojner Horwitz, Cecilia Stenfors & Walter Osika 29 Pristine Inner Experience While Silent Reading: It’s Not Silent Speaking of the Text Vincent
- [Non-propositional Contents and How to Find Them](https://www.imprint.co.uk/non-propositional-contents-and-how-to-find-them/) - Alex Grzankowski Abstract: To understand what non-propositional content is and whether there are any such contents, we first need to know what propositional content is. That issue will be the focus of the first section of this essay. In the second section, with an understanding of propo­sitional content in hand, we will consider representations that
- [Announcement for grant 2018](https://www.imprint.co.uk/announcement-for-grant-2018/) - The Helene Reeder Fund is pleased to announce the availability of grants for small and medium sized scientific research projects concerning the question of Life after Death. Grants will be awarded in the range of EUR 500 – 5000 maximum. The topic Research into Life after Death should constitute the main objective of the project.
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 25, No. 5-6, May/June 2018](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-25-no-5-6-may-june-2018/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Commentaries on Jennifer Windt, Dreaming: A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical Research, with Précis and Reply 6 Précis of ‘Dreaming: A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical Research’ Jennifer M. Windt 30 Cartesian Epistemology without Cartesian Dreams?
- [Cartesian Epistemology without Cartesian Dreams? - Commentary on Jennifer Windt’s Dreaming](https://www.imprint.co.uk/cartesian-epistemology-without-cartesian-dreams-commentary-on-jennifer-windts-dreaming/) - Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa 1. Introduction Jennifer Windt’s (2015) Dreaming is an enormously rich and thorough book, developing many important and illuminating connections between dreaming, the methodology of psychology, and various subfields in philosophy — especially the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of psychology, the philosophy of cognitive science, and epistemology. In this commentary, I’ll focus
- [Consciousness in Translation](https://www.imprint.co.uk/consciousness-in-translation-2/) - L.S. Weinrobe | weinrobe@gmail.com What causes subjective experience, and how can we be sure? Those are the questions at the heart of the hard problem of consciousness. As David Chalmers put it in "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness"[1], his agenda-setting 1995 JCS paper: For any physical process we specify there will be an
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 25, No. 7-8, July/August 2018](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-25-no-7-8-july-august-2018/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities The Formation of Embodied Memory Special Issue edited by Christian Tewes & Thomas Fuchs 4 About Authors 8 Editorial Introduction: The Formation of Body Memory Christian Tewes & Thomas Fuchs I. Temporal Characteristics of Embodied Memory Capacities 20 A Dynamical Approach to the Phenomenology of
- [Editorial Introduction - The Formation of Body Memory](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-the-formation-of-body-memory/) - Christian Tewes and Thomas Fuchs 1. Preliminary Remarks The contributors to this special issue have set out to analyse and investigate the psychological, biological, and social conditions of body memories and their impact on the constitution of collective memories. In contrast to episodic or semantic recollections, body memories such as habits shape the movements,
- [Call for papers: The Meta-Problem of Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/call-for-paper-the-meta-problem-of-consciousness/) - This is a call for papers for a symposium in the Journal of Consciousness Studies on David Chalmers' new paper “The Meta-Problem of Consciousness”. More than twenty years ago, David Chalmers published “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness” in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. He distinguished between the “easy problems” of consciousness, and
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 25, No. 9-10, September/October 2018](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-25-no-9-10-september-october-2018/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities 3 About Authors Refereed Papers 6 The Meta-Problem of Consciousness David J. Chalmers 62 Cell-to-Cell Communication: Evidence of Near-Instantaneous Distant, Non-Chemical Communication between Neuronal Cells by Using a Novel Bioelectric Biosensor Theofylaktos Apostolou & Spyridon Kintzios 75 A Structuralist Defence of the Integrated Information Theory
- [Cell-to-Cell Communication](https://www.imprint.co.uk/cell-to-cell-communication/) - Theofylaktos Apostolou and Spyridon Kintzios Evidence of Near-Instantaneous Distant, Non-Chemical Communication between Neuronal (Human SK-N-SH Neuroblastoma) Cells by Using a Novel Bioelectric Biosensor Abstract: According to an increasing number of reports, non-chemical, distant cellular interactions (NCDCI) may be responsible for a yet underestimated mechanism of cell-to-cell communication and coordinated cellular responses. Based on these
- [Table of Contents – JCS Vol. 25, No. 11-12, November/December 2018](https://www.imprint.co.uk/table-of-contents-jcs-vol-25-no-11-12-november-december-2018/) - Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities Altered States of Consciousness Special Issue edited by Arne Dietrich 4 About Authors 9 Editorial Introduction: Altered States of Consciousness Arne Dietrich 13 Beyond the REM–NREM Dichotomy: A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Dreaming Georgina Nemeth & Peter Fazekas 34 The Wandering Mind: Where Imagination Meets
- [Altered States of Consciousness](https://www.imprint.co.uk/altered-states-of-consciousness/) - Arne Dietrich Editorial Introduction This special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies is about altered states of consciousness (ASCs). One might be forgiven for thinking that this is an obvious choice of topic for this journal, and the field of consciousness studies in general. After all, isn’t it the most normal of practices
- [Editorial Introduction](https://www.imprint.co.uk/editorial-introduction-2/) - Garrett Mindt It is with great pleasure that I have the opportunity to introduce this special issue on the integrated information theory (IIT) of conscious-ness for the Journal of Consciousness Studies. IIT is the view that consciousness is integrated information in a system, the degree of which is quantified by a function denoted by the
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- [Vimal, R. L. P., & Bhardwaj, S. (2015). Metaphysics, Science, Religion, and Spirituality: Bringing them Closer via Extended Dual-Aspect Monism (Dvi-Pakṣa Advaita).](https://www.imprint.co.uk/986/) - Abstract We need both science and religion in our daily lives, but they have opposite foundations. The dominant metaphysics (foundation) of science is materialism: non-mental matter is fundamental and mind somehow arises from it, which is close to eastern Cārvāka/Lokāyata view. However, religion is based on: (a) idealism, where non-material mind is fundamental and matter-in-itself somehow
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- [So It Was Microtubules After All?](https://www.imprint.co.uk/so-it-was-microtubules-after-all/) - Jonathan C.W. Edwards So It Was Microtubules After All? Conference Report: Towards a Science of Consciousness, Helsinki 2015 I will start with some whingeing, but then rapidly move on to the good bits and finally to the very good bits. Despite the admirable efforts and warm hospitality of Paavo Pylkkänen, Stuart Hameroff, and the organizing
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- [Acting from the Gut](https://www.imprint.co.uk/acting-from-the-gut/) - Responsibility Without Awareness Chandra Sripada 1. Introduction It is widely agreed that to be morally responsible for an action, a person must satisfy certain epistemic requirements, and it is useful to divide these requirements into two parts. The first part addresses the question of what must be known (or at least sincerely believed; following
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- [Perceiving Two Levels of the Flow of Time", JCS volume 22](https://www.imprint.co.uk/perceiving-two-levels-of-the-flow-of-time-jcs-volume-22/) - All, or None : ) I am wondering why an article, essentially about visual perception, has been included in JCS. The word "consciousness" is not to be found in the article. What is the nature of consciousness such that there seems to be a dispute over what time is? The experiments, discussed in the article,
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