Science and the Primacy of Consciousness
Intimation of a 21st Century Revolution
A book of readings in Consciousness studies

Volume 1 of the Series: Readings in the Cosmology of Consciousness Edited by:

Richard L. Amoroso, Physics Lab, Noetic Advanced Studies Institute
Rui Antunes, Transpersonal Psychology Group, University of Lisbon
Claudia Coelho, Transpersonal Psychology Group, University of Lisbon
Miguel Farias, Transpersonal Psychology Group, University of Lisbon
Ana Leite, Transpersonal Psychology Group, University of Lisbon
Pedro Soares, Transpersonal Psychology Group, University of Lisbon

Publisher:
THE NOETIC PRESS, ORINDA, CA USA
Copyright ©2000 by The Noetic Press, Inc.
ISBN 0-9678687-1-8
Paperback, 445 pages. 

Contents

Preface
Forward
Introduction

Part I Neuro and Behavioral Biology
    CHAPTER 1 The Primacy of Conscious Experience
        Karl H. Pribram – Radford University
    CHAPTER 2 Emergent Consciousness Considered as a Solution to the Problem of Movement
        Arne Friemuth Peterson – University of Copenhagen
    CHAPTER 3 On the Function of Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep and Dreaming
        George A. Christos – Curtin University of Technology

Part II Philosophy of Mind
    CHAPTER 4 Consciousness, A Radical Definition: Substance Dualism Solves the Hard Problem
        Richard L. Amoroso – Noetic Advanced Studies Institute
    CHAPTER 5 The Interdisciplinary Science of Consciousness
        Mihai Drãgãnescu – Romanian Academy
    CHAPTER 6 Meaning as Consciousness
        Andrew Lohrey – University of Tasmania
    CHAPTER 7 Time and Presence
        Georg Franck – Vienna University of Technology
    CHAPTER 8 Consciousness and Metaphor: A Permanent Necessary Relationship or a Temporary          Explanatory Expedient?
        Earl R. Mac Cormac – Duke University Medical Center
    CHAPTER 9 Generalized Foundational Principles in the Philosophy of Science
        Mihai Drãgãnescu – Romanian Academy
        Menas Kafatos – George Mason University
    CHAPTER 10 Reductionism and the Scientific Method Applicibility to Mental Phenomena
        Erich Harth – Syracuse University
    CHAPTER 11 The Map of the Mind
        Bill Potter – Australian Centre for Consciousness
    CHAPTER 12 Panpsychism, The Conscious Brain, and Our Mind-Body-Soul Nature
        Emmanuel Ransford – Chatou, France
    CHAPTER 13 Paradigm Shifts in Science and their Impacts
        Henry Swift – Science Within Consciousness

Part III Quantum Physics and Cosmology
    CHAPTER 14 Why Classical Mechanics Cannot Naturally Accommodate Consciousness but         Quantum Mechanics Can
        Henry P. Stapp – Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
     CHAPTER 15 Call for a Model of Deep Ontology – A Commentary on Stapp: "Why Classical          Mechanics Cannot Naturally Accommodate Consciousness But Classical Mechanics Can"
        Richard L. Amoroso – Noetic Advanced Studies Institute
    CHAPTER 16 Symmetry: The Theory of Everything
        Andrew Lohrey – University of Tasmania
    CHAPTER 17 Quantum Theory of Consciousness
        Evan Harris Walker – Walker Cancer Research Institute
    CHAPTER 18 Science Within Consciousness: A New Quantum Psychophysical Parallelisim
        Amit Goswami – University of Oregon
    CHAPTER 19 A Sheaf Theoretic Approach to Consciousness
        Goro Kato – California Polytechnic State University
        Daniele C. Struppa – George Mason University
    CHAPTER 20 Matter Waves and Human Consciousness
        Milo Wolf – Technotran Press
    CHAPTER 21 The Nature of Man-Universe Connections
        Attila Grandpierre – Konkoly Observatory, Hungarian Academy
    CHAPTER 22 Nonlocality, Foundational Principles & Consciousness
        Menas Kafatos – George Mason University

Part IV Cognitive, Transpersonal and Parapsychology
    CHAPTER 23 The Future of Psychiatry and Psychology: Conceptual Challenges from Clinical          Consciousness Research
        Stanslav Grof – Transpersonal Psychology, Mill Valley
    CHAPTER 24 Holographic Mind – The Integration of Seer, Seeing, and Seen
        Edmond Chouinard – Measurements Research, Inc.
    CHAPTER 25 The Extended Mind
        Rupert Sheldrake – Parapsychology Research
    CHAPTER 26 Ayahuasca, Mind and Consciousness
        Benny Shannon

Part V Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Computer Science
    CHAPTER 27 Why Can’t Computers Cope with Consciousness?
        Matjaz Gams – Jozef Stefan Institute
    CHAPTER 28 How to Engineer a Conscious Quantum Computer
        Richard L. Amoroso – Noetic Advanced Studies Institute
    CHAPTER 29 Evolutionary Quantum Computation: Its Role in the Brain, Its Realization in        Electronic Hardware, and Its Implications for the Panpsychic Theory of Consciousness
        Ben Goertzel – IntelliGenesis Corp.
    CHAPTER 30 Neuro-quantum Coherence and Consciousness
        Mitja Perus – Slovene Society for Cognitive Sciences
    CHAPTER 31 Attractors and Consciousness
        George A. Christos – Curtin University of Technology

Part VI Information and Systems Theory
    CHAPTER 32 Information Self-organization and Consciousness: Towards a Holoinformational
         Theory of Consciousness
        Francisco Di Biase & Mário Sérgio F. Rocha – International Holistic University
    CHAPTER 33 Thought, Consciousness and Self: From Image to Reality
        Jonathan Reams – Gonzaga University
    CHAPTER 34 Outline for a Multi-Tiered, Homeodynamic Construction Of Consciousness
          Within Interactive Systems in Science
        Daniel W. Miller – Greenwich University
    CHAPTER 35 An Information Theory that Unifies Consciousness and Physics
        Charles Berner and Catherine Draut – Merimbula, Australia
    CHAPTER 36 Technology in Support of Returning: From Conscious Doing to Consciously Being
        J. A. Waterworth – Umea University

Part VII Theological Aspects of Consciousness
    CHAPTER 37 The Quantum Physical Communication Between the Self and the Soul
        Fred Alan Wolf – Have Brains / Will Travel
    CHAPTER 38 The God of Abraham, A Mathematician’s View: Is There a Mathematical Argument
         for the Existence of God?
        Stan Tenen – Meru Foundation

Part VIII Panel Discussion – Science and the Primacy of Consciousness
    PANEL DISCUSSION 39
        Karl Pribram, Ropert Sheldrake, Stanislv Grof, Amit Goswami
        Moderator – Benny Shannon

Readings in the Cosmology of Consciousness
An International Book Series of Readings in Consciousness Studies:
The Cosmology of Mind and Associated Fundamental Principles

Publisher:
THE NOETIC PRESS, ORINDA, CA USA

Series Editor:
RICHARD L. AMOROSO, Noetic Advanced Studies Institute, Orinda, CA USA

Editorial Advisory Board:
EDMOND CHOUINARD, Measurements Research Inc., Providence, R.I. USA
MIHAI DRÃGÃNESCU,Romanian Academy, Romania
MIGUEL FARIAS, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
MENAS KAFATOS, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA
BENJAMIN LIBET, University of California, San Francisco, CA USA
FOTINI PALLIKARI, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
KARL H. PRIBRAM, Radford University, Radford, VA USA
SISIR ROY, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
METOD SANIGA, Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic
DEJAN RAKOVIC, Belgrade University, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
STAN TENEN, Meru Foundation, Sharon, MA USA
EVAN HARRIS WALKER, Walker Cancer Research Institute, Aberdeen, MD USA
FRED ALAN WOLF, Quantum Physics and Spirituality, San Francisco, CA USA

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