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1 TRANSFORMATIONS OF BEING

1.1 PHILOSOPHY...BEING AS A WHOLE

1.1.1 INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

Darshan - An Astika Outline

Astika Outline, 'Darshana'
Dvaita

Myth of the Aryan Invasion
Upanisads, S Chintalapaty
Advaita Vedânta, S. Vidyasankar
Circulation of Fire in the Veda, A. Hayakawa
Vedic Culture - Articles and Links
Essentials of the Upanishads - a Dvaita view, K.T. Pandurangi

1.1.2 WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Continental Philosophy

1.1.3 RELIGION AND ART

1.1.4 SPECIFIC TOPICS

1.2 MIND, CONSCIOUSNESS, METAPHYSICS

1.2.1 GENERAL

1.2.2 CONSCIOUSNESS, MIND AND NATURE

The Concept

On a confusion about a function of consciousness
Availability The Cognitive Basis of Experience
Honderich Articles
Honderich In progress
Classics in the History of Psychology -- James (1904)
Imagination, Eliminativism, & the Pre-History of Consciousness.
Nonphenomenal Consciousness, Eric Lormand
On Self Awareness
A Theory of Consciousness, David Rosenthal
What is it like to be a rock, Aaron Sloman
Consciousness, Eric Lormand

Explanatory Gap

Conceptual Analysis, Dualism and the Explanatory Gap, Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker
Relational Direct Dualism and the Hard Problem, Jamie Carnie
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, David Chalmers
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness, David Chalmers
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness, David Chalmers
Consciousness - The Hornswoggle Problem, P.S.Churchland
Chalmers on Consciousness, Daniel Dennett
What does McGinn think we cannot know, James Garvey
Evolutionary Explanation and the Hard Problem, Steven Horst
What is it like to be a bat, Thomas Nagel
Relation of consciousness to the material world, Max Velmans

Materialism & Dualism

The Mind-Brain Problem, John Beloff
What Are Minds For, John Beloff
Searle on the Brink, Selmer Bringsjord
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
Minds simply are what brains do, Marvin Minsky
Matter, Mind and Models, Marvin Minsky
Critique of Sellars' Materialism, Andrew Chrucky
Contemporary Materialsm, P.K. Moser & J.D. Trout
Language and the Body-Mind Problem, Karl Popper
A Note on the Body-Mind Problem, Karl Popper
Physicalism - A Wittgensteinean Perspective, A.J. Rudd
A Note on Popper's Argument for Dualism, Wilfrid Sellars
On misconceiving a science of consciousness, Nigel Thomas
The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argument, Michael Tye
Dualism through Reductionism, Hans Moravec

Materialism & Modality

Cosmic hermeneutics, Alex Byrne
Materialism and the Metaphysics of Modality, David Chalmers
Concepts and consciousness, Stephen Yablo
Kripkeanism & the Open Texture of Concepts, Stephen Yablo
Mind and Modality, David Chalmers
Modal Rationalism and the Mind-Body Problem, David Chalmers
The apriority of modal knowledge, Christopher Hill
Phenomenal States, Brian Loar
Conceiving the impossible and the mind-body problem

Miscellaneous

The Cerebral Symphony, William Calvin
The Cerebral Code, William Calvin
The mystery of consciousness - commentary, Walter Freeman

Panpsychism

Whitehead's EvenMore Dangerous Idea, Peter Farleigh
Consciousness, information and panpsychism, William Seager
Panpsychism & the mind-body problem, David Griffin

Metaphysics of Consciousness

Mind and its place in nature, C.D. Broad
Consciousness and Cognition, David Chalmers
Hayek's solution to the mind-body problem, E. Feser
A world of pure experience, William James, 1904
The Grain Problem, Michael Lockwood
Consciousness and Space, Colin McGinn
The concept of emergence, Paul E. Meehl and Wilfrid Sellars
Empiricism and the philosophy of mind, Wilfrid Sellars

Zombies

Zombie Killer, Nigel Thomas
Zombie Killer - full ASCII, Nigel Thomas
Todd Moody's Zombies, John McCarthy
In defense of impenetrable zombies, Selmer Bringsjord
Self-Ascription Without Qualia A Case-Study, David Chalmers
Zombie attack on the computational conception of mind, Selmer Bringsjord
The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, Daniel Dennett
Conversations with zombies, Todd Moody

Qualia

Qualia, Michael Tye
Naturalism, Qualia and Pain, Murat Aydede
The affective aspect of phenomenal experiences, Murat Aydede
Colors and reflectances, Alex Byrne & David Hilbert
Absent, Fading, and Dancing Qualia, David Chalmers
Quining Qualia, Daniel Dennet
Instead of Qualia, Daniel Dennett
Lovely and Suspect Qualities, Daniel Dennett
The Analysis of Sensations, Ernst Mach
Against Dennett's Eliminativism, Eugene Park
The Phenomenal Character of Experience, Sydney Shoemaker
Colors, Subjective Reactions, and Qualia, Sydney Shoemaker

Content

Mental Ink, Ned Block
Engineering the Mind, Kent Bach
How can experiences find their objects, Kent Bach
Phenomenal and representational properties, Murat Aydede & Guven Guzeldere
Seeing things, Ted Honderich
Conscious thought without Cartesisnism, Nigel Thomas

Function

What Good is Conscsiousness, Fred Dretske
Functions of Consciousness, Bernard Baars
Is Consciousness an Adaptation, Thomas Polger and Owen Flanagan
The Uses of Consciousness, Nicholas Humphrey
Evolution of Consciousness - the Other Hard Problem, Thomas Polger and Owen Flanagan
Is Human Information Processing Conscious, Max Velmans

Self & Identity

The Self - John Perry

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'I' = Awareness, Arthur J. Deikman
The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity, Daniel Dennett
The Origins of Selves, Daniel Dennett
Of Identity and Diversity, from John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding
Dennett on the Split-brain, Roland Pucetti
A meditation on the unity of consciousness, Nicholas Humphrey
Speaking for our selves, Nicholas Humphrey and Daniel Dennett

Chinese Room

Minds, Machines and Searle, Stevan Harnad
Chinese Room Argument (John Searle)
Minds, Brains, and Programs, John Searle
Is the Brain a Digital Computer, John Searle

Philosophy of Consciousness

Computation and Phi
Consciousness and Cognition, David Chalmers
Natural theories of consciousness, Peter Carruthers
Death, nothingness, and subjectivity, Tom Clark
Time and the Observer, Daniel Dennett and Marcel Kinsbourne
The Rediscovery of the Mind, Review by Thomas Nagel
The Problem of Consciousness, John R. Searle
A Defense of Cartesian Materialism, Gerard O'Brien and Jon Opie

Mental Content

Language of Thought Hypothesis, Murat Aydede
Fodor on Concepts and Frege Puzzles, Murat Aydede
Semantics, Conceptual Role by Ned Block
Holism, Mental and Semantic by Ned Block
Real Patterns, Daniel Dennett
Components of Content, David Chalmers
Evolution, Error and Intentionality, Daniel Dennett
Intentionality, Daniel Dennett and John Haugeland
There Are No Recognitional Concepts, Jerry Fodor
There Are No Recognitional Concepts - Part II, Jerry Fodor

Philosophy of Mind

The Problem of Philosophy by Colin McGinn
Intelligence Without Representation, Hubert Dreyfus
The Extended Mind, Andy Clark and David Chalmers
What is Functionalism by Ned Block
Anti-Reductionism Slaps Back by Ned Block

Consciousness and AI

Minds or Machines, John Beloff
Does AI Need to Concern Itself With Consciousness, Selmer Bringsjord
Computational Architecture and Consciousness, Scott Brockmeier
Practical Requirements for a Conscious Robot, Daniel Dennett
A Systems Approach to Consciousness, Aaron Sloman
Cognition is not Computation, Selmer Bringsjord

Turing Test

Computing Machinery and Intelligence, A. M. Turing
Why the Turing Test is AI's Biggest Blind Alley, Blay Whitby

Philosophy of AI

Cognition is not Computation, Selmer Bringsjord
The Mind as the Software of the Brain, Ned Block
A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition, David Chalmers
How Intelligent is Deep Blue, Drew McDermott
Why People Think Computers Can't, Marvin Minsky
Constructions of the Mind -- Stanford Electronic Humanities Review

Neuroscience & Visual Consciousness

Towards the Neuronal Substrate of Visual Consciousness, Christopher Koch
Blindsight in man and monkey, P. Stoerig and A. Cowey
Neuronal Activity and Processing of Visual Signals, A. Sahraie et. al.

Consciousness & Neuroscience

Crick's Astonishing Hypothesis, Bill Webster
Why neuroscience may be able to explain consciousness, Francis Crick and Christof Koch
Neural Basis of Conscious Experience, Bernard Baars
How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness, Ned Block
On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness, David Chalmers
Can Neurobiology Teach us Anything about Consciousness, Patricia S. Churchland
Consciousness and Neuroscience, Francis Crick and Christof Koch
The Problem of Consciousness, Francis Crick and Christof Koch
The Effect of Silent Thinking on the Cerebral Cortex, Sir John C. Eccles
Neural assemblies and consciousness, Susan Greenfield
The Brain Project, Stephen Jones
Consciousness-Susan Greenfield

Cognitive Models

A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness - Table of Contents, Bernard Baars
A Scientific Theory of Consciousness, Bernard Baars
On the Evolution of Consciousness and Language, Bruce Bridgman
Competing for Consciousness, W. H. Calvin
Consciousness More like Fame than Television, Daniel Dennett
Filling in Versus Finding Out, Daniel Dennett
Global Workspace Theory (of Baars), Josh McDermott
Constructing The Relational Mind, John G. Taylor
Connectionist Theory of Experience, Gerard O'Brien and John Opie

Unconscious Perception

Unconscious Perception, Philip Merikle and Meredyth Daneman

Implicit Memory

Theoretical Framework For Explicit and Implicit Memory, Andrew R. Mayes et. al.
The Death of Implicit Memory, Daniel Willingham and Laura Preuss

Implicit Learning

A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge, Zoltan Dienes

Consciousness and Attention

Consciousness and Attention, Bernard Baars

Consciousness and Psychology

Understanding Consciousness, Bernard Baars
Synesthesia Phenomenology And Neuropsychology, Richard E. Cytowic
Unconscious, James Hopkins

Animal Consciousness

Species of Mind - overview, Colin Allen and Marc Beloff
Animal Subjectivity, Peter Carruthers
Animal Consciousness What Matters and Why, Daniel Dennett

Consciousness and Physics

Shadows of the Mind, Review by Bernard Baars
A New Theory of the Relationship Between Mind and Mater, David Bohm
Chalmers on Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics, Alex Byrne and Bed Hall
Consciousness and the Cambrian Explosion, Stuart Hameroff
Quantum Computing in Microtubules, Stuart Hameroff
Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections, Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose
Quantum Coherence in Brain Microtubules and Consciousness, Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose
The Hard Problem - A Quantum Approach, Henry Stapp
End of a Quantum Mechanical Romance, Gregory Mulhauser
The Myth of Quantum Consciousness, Victor Stenger

Methodology

Mysticism and Consciousness, Robert Foreman
The Challenge of Consciousness Research, Brian Josephson and Beverly Rubik
Neurophenomenology- a Methodological Remedy for the Hard Problem, Francisco Varela
A Reflexive Science of consciousness, Max Velmans
Is it impossible to 'measure' conscious feeling, Art Winfree
The specious present- A neurophenomenology of time consciousness, Francisco Varela

Gödel's theorem & AI

Mind Versus Gödel, Damjan Bojadziev
Mind Versus Gödel - References
Critique of 'Shadows of the Mind', Matt Caywood
Minds, Machines, and Mathematics, David Chalmers
Godel Propositions for the Mind, Kari Goldman
Review of Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind by Daniel Dennett
Minds, Machines and Gödel, J. R. Lucas
Rejoinder to Paul Benacerraf, J. R. Lucas
The Gödelian Argument Turn Over the Page, J. R. Lucas
The Implications of Gödel's Theorem, J. R. Lucas
Penrose is wrong, Drew McDermott
Beyond the Doubting of a Shadow, Reply to Commentaries, Roger Penrose
Shadows of the Mind, Review by Bernard Baars
Shadows of the Mind, Review by Hans Moravec
Shadows of the Mind, Review by Hilary Putnam

1.3 EXPLORATION AND EXPERIENCE

1.3.1 DIMENSIONS AND EXAMPLES

1.3.2 OTHER CULTURES - STUDY AND INFERENCE

U of A Tarahumara
CSU Stanislaus-Cultural Anthropology Links
Anthropology resources

1.3.3 OTHER CULTURES - EXPLORATION

Pennington

1.3.4 THE EXPLORATIONS OF OTHERS

Yamal

Yamal Project - Main
Expedition Begins
Culture
Contact
Past
Sacred Landscape

Siberian Shamanism Links
Bedouin Shamanism

2 KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, DISCOVERY

2.1 ACADEMIC STUDIES

2.1.1 KNOWLEDGE AS A WHOLE

Cognitive Science

MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Author Index

2.1.2 MATTER, COSMOS, GEOLOGY

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library High-Energy Physics
Professional Organizations - Department of Geography - Michigan State University
American Institute of Physics
Royal Astronomical Society
NRC - Physics and Astronomy
Assn of Universities for Research in Astronomy
International Astronomical Union
Geology Link Page
Chemistry & Biology Current Issue
The Journal of Chemical Physics

2.1.3 BIOLOGY AND NEUROLOGY

Institute of Biology

2.1.4 ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY

Native American Ethnobotany Database
What is culture
Ethnobotanical Resource Directory - links
Headache Treatment in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Ethan Russo
Plants of the Machiguenga, Ethan Russo
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Cultural Anthropology [Journal]

2.1.5 SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Sociology - Professional Organizations
Conditions for an action coalition
From Science and Sociology, Max Weber
From Pragmatism and Sociology, Emile Durkheim

2.1.6 ART AND RELIGION

Art Theorists and Critics

Habermas, Jürgen (1929-) aux

Habermas, Jürgen (1929-) Main
Habermas, Jürgen (1929-) Panel

Baudrillard, Jean - Bibliography
Baudrillard, Jean
Butler, Judith
Chomsky, Noam
Cixous, Hélène - An Interview
Debord, Guy
Derrida, Jacques (1930 - ) - Bibliography
Eco, Umberto - Bibliography
Foucault, Michel - The History of Sexuality
Freud, Sigmund (1865-1939) - Links
Habermas, Jürgen (1929-) - Web Resources
Derridean Links
Haraway, Donna The Promises of Monsters
Hume, David - Links
Kristeva, Julia - brief profile
Illich, Ivan - Bibliography
Lacan, Jacques - Links
Lyotard, Jean-Francois - Literary Theory Discussion
Marx., Karl (1818 -1883) - Information and Links
McCracken, Grant - Plenitude
Lacanian ink
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Paglia, Camille...Salon - Ask Camille
Rheingold, Howard - Technology and Community
Rich, B. Ruby - Who's Ruby
Postcolonial Literature
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield
Barthes, Roland - The Discourse of History
Butler, Judith at the Cafe - Transcript
Chomsky Archive
Chomsky, Noam - Bad News - Archival Supplement
Cixous, Hélène Bibliography
Debord, Guy - Howlings in favor of Sade
Debord - Guy Debord is really dead.
Deleuze and Guattari resources
Deleuze and Guattari - Literature and Life
Deleuze & Guattari on the Web
Derrida, Jacques (1930 - ) - Bibliography by title
Eco Interview
Eco, Umberto - Review of Foucault's Pendulum
Empson, William (1906-1984) - Essay by John Constable
Foucault, Michel - Links
Foucault, Michel - Genealogy
Freud, Sigmund (1865-1939) - The Interpretation of Dreams - Links to full text
Freud, Sigmund (1865-1939) - Sex, lies and letters
Habermas, Jürgen (1929-) - The Critical Theory, Dan MacIsaacs
Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976) - Links
Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976) - Heidegger Deconstructed, Peter J. Leithart
Texts & Contexts - Index page
Lukács, Georg (1885-1971) and Mikhail Bakhtin - Theory of Culture
Ong, Walter J., Orality and Literacy - Review
Poster, Mark - Cyber Democracy
Rheingold, Howard - The Virtual Community, Contents
Zizek, Slavoj - The Lesbian Session - Lacan and Ayn Rand
Zizek, Slavoj - Why does a letter always arrive at its Destination
Said, Edward - Orientalism, a Brief Definition

Art History Links
Art History Virtual Library
American Society for Aesthetics
Color theory, bibliography 380 BC - 1949
Color theory, bibliography 1950 - 1999
Art Theorists and Critics
Ecology and Religion, Ben Cullen

2.1.7 TECHNOLOGY

2.1.8 HISTORY AND HUMANITIES

World History Archives
World History Archives - Historiography

2.1.9 LANGUAGE, LOGIC, MATHEMATICS

From Saussure's Lectures on General Linguistics

2.2 PROFESSIONS AND APPLIED STUDIES

2.2.1 GENERAL AND SOCIAL DESIGN

United Nations

WHO
WHO - Control of Tropical Diseases
United Nations Home Page
United Nations Web Site Locator
UN Commission for human rights
UN Commission for human rights - former Yugoslavia, May 1988

Education

National Science Teachers Association
Global Directory of Universities

Political Consultants [Think tanks}

Urban Institute 'liberal'
Heritage Found'n 'conservative'

Federation of American Scientists
User Centered Social Action
American Friends Service Committee

2.2.2 ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Environmental

Air & Waste Management Association
National Association of Environmental Professionals

Agricultural

American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Electrical

Institution of Electrical Engineers, London
IEEE

Civil

ASCE

Aerospace

AIAA

General

American Society of Naval Engineers
National Academy of Engineering
National Society of Professional Engineers

Chemical

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Metals & Materials

ASM International Links to Professional Organizations
ASM International links to Materials Science and Engineering
ASM International
ASTM
Materials Research Society
Society of Plastics Engineers

Computer & Communication

Association for Computing Machinery
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
IEEE Computer
IEEE
Internet Engineering Task Force
ISO
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)(formerly CCITT)
SIAM
UNIX Professionals and System Administrators
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Computing Research Association

Links to Professional Organizational Organizations

2.2.3 MEDICINE

Health Topics
Allergy links- Organizations
Professional Organizations by Specialty
American Psychiatric Association (APA), The
Canadian Psychiatric Association
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
American Psychiatric Nurses Association - CA Chapter
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
American Medical Association
Centers for Disease Control

2.2.4 OTHER - LAW

Inter-American Bar Association home
American Bar Association

Kinky but Fun &or Useful

Factasia

3 COMPUTER AND NETWORK ELEMENTS

3.1 ...AS DYNAMIC ELEMENT IN BEING

Symposium The Evolution of Complexity

3.2 ...AS TOOL

3.3 ...SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Education

MIT AI Lab
Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab
UT Austin AI Lab
AI at U of Manchester
Yale AI
Brown AI
AI - Acad Sciences, Moscow
Edinburgh AI
Carnegie AI Repository
Cambridge - Automated Reasoning
AI at SRI
U Michigan AI Lab
AI Group JPL

AI & Robotics

Expert Systems

FAQ Expert System Shells
Free & Cheap Shells
AI & Expert Systems Outline [C Brown, OSU]

Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab
Stanford Formal Reasoning Group
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab
Artificial Life Lab - Santa Fe

Journals

IEEE Intelligent Systems
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks
Computer Science Bibs
ACM Intelligence Magazine [AI]
AI in Engineering
AI in Medicine
AI in Engineering Design
Ann Math & AI
Applied Intelligence - Int'l J AI
Eng Apps of AI
Journal of Heuristics
Knowledge-Based Systems
J of Intelligent Systems
PC AI - Artificial Intelligence

High End Computing

HP V-Class Enterprise Server
Intel Teraflops
HP 9000 Tech Solutions

Organizations

K Rep, Inc
ACM
Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Cambridge Computer Lab

4 SOCIAL ELEMENTS AND ACTION

4.3 DEDICATED GROUP

Social Theory, Organization - links
The Maccoby Group - Consultants for Strategic Change

4.4 GENERAL SOCIAL ACTION

Worldwatch Institute
OneEarth

4.2 INDIVIDUAL ACTION

Charisma in action in a corporate setting

4.1 THE NATURE OF ACTION

Temp- From The Structure of Social Action, Talcott Parsons
Sociology of Charisma