David Chalmers had compiled a directory of 2573 online papers on consciousness and related topics. Most of these papers are by academic philosophers or scientists. Click here to check out this great online resource.

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Victim of the Brain is a 1988 docudrama by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter”. It features interviews with Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett. It has never been online before, but is now available on Google Video.

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Scientists active in the field may already know about the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness‘ eprint archive, but we haven’t mentioned it on SCR before and it was high-time we did. Check out the archive for a growing collection of fulltext academic papers on the scientific study of consciousness.

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Dear Scientist,

I invite you to submit a video-article on your experiments to the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE).

JoVE is a newly founded journal devoted to visualized (video-based) publication of biological research. The video-based publication format allows for an explicit demonstration of how experiments are performed, as compared to traditional print publications. Publishing in JoVE provides an opportunity for visual exposure of your/your lab’s research expertise to thousands of scientists accessing our journal.

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Learn about the neurobiology of the sleep-wake cycle and implications for the understanding and management of insomnia in this Expert Column at Medscape.com.

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The Medscape Pain Management Special Report is a free, monthly newsletter focused on recent developments and advances in the understanding and treatment of pain. It features expert columns, recent articles, and easy-to-navigate links to the latest information on pain management.

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Here is an excellent resource for different visual illusion and phenomena. Michael Bach has made an impressive collection of different illusions. Each illusion is also accompanied by descriptions of how and why they work. Many illusions are also manipulable to better illustrate the effect.

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Colour perception can be influenced by the local environment in which they are seen. But just how dramatic can this influence be? Here we link to a website that demonstrates the effect of colour constancy.

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JUST LAUNCHED: THE HUMAN BRAIN – our thought-provoking special report. With one billion nerve cells, the complexity of the brain is mind-boggling. Follow the latest discoveries, plus our Expert Guide, including an interactive graphic, Top Ten, FAQs and more…

New Scientist

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We are very happy to announce that the new and improved Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest website has now been launched!!

Visit the site and see the 2005 winning illusions!

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This web resource focuses on the ways in which neuroscience is influencing our understanding of ourselves as conscious beings with agency, etc. and has specific pages on consciousness, science & the soul, and agency & moral responsiblity.

Neuroethics at upenn.edu

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ALL IN THE MIND with Julie Browning

The Emotional Brain, Part 1 of 4: Sexual Desire

Saturday, 26 November, 1.30pm, repeat Wednesday, 30 November, 9pm

Instead of being the fount of irrationality, emotions are now viewed as integral to intelligent action. What can contemporary science and philosophy tell us about ouremotional selves? This four-part series gets underway with Sexual Desire.

ABC (Australia) Radio National

Transcripts and streaming audio available after the show has aired.

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A new “Wikibook” has appeared on the subject of consciousness. Is the SCR forum up to it?

Wikibooks are electronic books that are part of the Wikimedia program of Open Publishing. The book can be found at:

Wikibooks

The book is freely available on the Internet and in my opinion it is a remarkably wide ranging attempt at describing the field of consciousness studies. However, the book is online so you can see for yourself.

A most interesting aspect of this book is that anyone can contribute to it. This sounds like a recipe for disaster but surprisingly this does not happen in Open Publishing. The most advanced Open Publishing project is the Internet encyclopedia called Wikipedia and this is now the most popular site on the Internet for factual content. Wikipedia first appeared in 2001. It has gained spectacular momentum in the past 18 months and is now being visited over 500,000 times a day! (see this page) . Wikibooks are a recent addition to the Wikimedia project and in the next two to three years may well undergo the exponential growth of Wikipedia.

Few people could be better qualified to edit this book than the subscribers to SCR so why not have a go?

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Due to popular demand: We are happy to announce the world’s 2nd annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest — 2006!!

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The aim of this research is to identify the most influential scientific studies of consciousness. It takes 15-20 minutes to complete and has two parts. The first part asks what you think are the most important scientific studies of consciousness, and why. The second part asks you some general demographic information (this information will not be published or used for anything other than statistical comparisons). Please be as specific as possible in your responses. The final question asks you if you would like to be informed of the results of the survey. Enter your email address there if you would like the survey results to be sent to you. Thank-you for your participation.

Take the survey

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In the recent Webscan on HMS Beagle, Cindy Siewert localizes some of the web resources for the present knowledge on pain and related issues. Some of the features are links to brain scans of subjects in both chronic and acute pain.

WebscanIn the recent Webscan on HMS Beagle, Cindy Siewert localizes some of the web resources for the present knowledge on pain and related issues. Some of the features are links to brain scans of subjects in both chronic and acute pain.

“Pain – like few other things – unites all humans. We all suffer from it, at least now and then, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, or sexual orientation. Nevertheless, all of us experience pain in solitude, and communicating the actual experience is notoriously difficult. What one person considers a simple touch might be felt as painful by another. Pain can even be felt in parts of the body that no longer exist, as is clear from the perception of aches in phantom limbs, which are “invisible” limbs that often appear following amputation. According to The Pain Web, over 1,200 online sites – containing over 3 million pages – address the topic of pain. Consequently, this WebScan just scratches the surface of available resources.”

BioMedNet WebScan

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