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An Introduction to Consciousness Studies (2014)

An introduction to Western Consciousness Studies.

Introduction
This page is meant to be a short introduction, as of August 2014, to a "Western" view of consciousness.
Organizations 
Videos
This TED talk, by the brilliant David Chalmers, coiner of the phrase "the hard problem" and author of (among other books) The Character of Consciousness (2010) was published in July 2014, and sums up where we are today in our understanding of consciousness, through the lens of Western Consciousness Studies.

This talk by John Hagelin, Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy and President of the David Lynch Foundation at the Science and Nonduality Conference (2011), suggests that Consciousness and the Unified Field may be the same thing.

Articles

This article describes two leading ideas vying to explain consciousness from a Western Consciousness Studies perspective, discussed at the Center for Consciousness Studies 20th Annual Conference, in Tucson, Arizona, 2014.
Books
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions / Lisa Randall / 2005
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human / Susan Blackmore / 2006
Conferences
Two recent conferences:
Toward a Science of Consciousness (Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson, Arizona)
April 21-26, 2014.
Link to program and conference abstracts
See link at the site to videos from the conference.
ASSC 18 (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness)
July 16-19, 2014
Link to conference website
A short list of views of others in the West of other systems.
"Western" understanding of "Eastern" approaches to consciousness
 
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