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Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics

By Bernardo Kastrup, Henry P. Stapp, Menas C. Kafatos — 2018

The question is no longer whether quantum theory is correct, but what it means.

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Do We Have Minds of Our Own?

The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.

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Meghan O’Gieblyn
2019
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Is It Time to Give Up on Consciousness as ‘the Ghost in the Machine’?

Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness–which has important implications for our belief in free will and our approach to the study of the human mind.

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Peter Halligan and David A. Oakley
2021
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Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness?

The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.

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Peter Russell
2011
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Why We Should Rethink What We’ve Been Told About Consciousness

If we as adults are not free to make sovereign decisions—right or wrong—about our own consciousness, that most intimate, that most sapient, that most personal part of ourselves, then in what useful sense can we be said to be free at all?

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Graham Hancock
2013
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Perspectives on the Current Global Crisis: A Conversation with Ralph Metzner

A conversation with Ralph Metzner about his book, The Expansion of Consciousness, and his reflections on questions that touch on the most profound problems we face for our survival, our existence as a species.

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Will Shonbrun
2016
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Consciousness: Eight Questions Science Must Answer

The brain mechanisms of consciousness are being unravelled at a startling pace, with researchers focusing on eight key areas

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Anil Seth
2012
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The Real Problem

It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be.

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Anil Seth
2016
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What in the World Is Consciousness?

Our perception of the world around us, and ourselves within it, are ‘controlled hallucinations’ that the brain uses to help keep itself alive

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Anil Seth
2018
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Missed Opportunities, Part 1

What I would like to encourage . . . is to be open to what various teachings say, and, at the same time, question everything, even your own perceptions, until a more satisfactory method of verification than we have at present becomes available.

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A. H. Almaas
2013
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Dr. Eben Alexander on His Near-Death Experience—And What He’s Learned About Consciousness

In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.

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Eben Alexander
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