Consciousness

Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness which is experience itself and access consciousness which is the processing of the things in experience (Block 2004).

External links

Journals & newsletters

• Journal of Consciousness Studies
• Consciousness and Cognition
• Psyche
• Science & Consciousness Review

Societies

• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Philosophy resources

• David Chalmers' directory of online papers on consciousness
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
• Consciousness
• Animal Consciousness
• Higher Order Theories of Consciousness
• Consciousness and Intentionality
• Representational Theory of Consciousness
• Unity of Consciousness

Misc Sites

• Online lecture videos, from an undergraduate course taught by Christof Koch at Caltech on the neurobiological basis of consciousness in 2004.
• Ken Wilber's Integral Theory of Consciousness from Journal of Consciousness Studies
• Brain Atlas, Brain Maps, Neuroinformatics
• A course in consciousness
• Gnosticweb Articles on Consciousness as taught by some Gnostic teachers.
• On the role of the red blood cells in consciousness
• History of the word "consciousness" until Descartes