Dear all, Science & Consciousness Review ( http://psych.pomona.edu/scr ) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ THE PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - NEW SECTION ON TESTABLE IDEAS ON CONSCIOUSNESS A Nagelian Neurology of Consciousness? - by Chris Nunn "The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility that Nagel's well-known account has implications for understanding the neural basis of consciousness. In a world assumed to be non-dualistic, it is argued that Nagel's view (i.e. that consciousness is what an organism possesses when there is something that it is like to be itself) implies that consciousness is an attribute of some system in the brain that maps patterns of spike train activity. Various considerations suggest that any such system is likely to operate on analog principles." Full text at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/theory/20030401.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - Nonconscious formation and reactivation of semantic associations - Conscious perception of brain states - Delusions of alien control in the normal brain - Out-of-body experiences: from Penfield to present - Embodied consciousness and Alzheimer's disease See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES Workshop on Crick & Koch's Framework for Consciousness Science: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/ww_framework.html Workshop on Stan Franklin's IDA Model http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/WW_IDAmodel.html Visit our archives at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/archive.html _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor