Berto Jongman: Consciousness Annual Report

PDF (24 Pages): Annual Report on Consciousness, Institute of Noetic Sciences, 2015 Our change model at IONS is simple. Conduct and advance rigorous science to investigatethe farther reaches of our human potential. Take what we learn to develop training, toolsand technologies that people can apply in the real world. And create learning opportunitiesfor people to …

Sepp Hasslberger: TED Destroys Talk on Consciousness Rooted in Plants — A Pitch for DMT

Good talk by Graham Hancock which was taken off the TED talks website … Banned TED Talk: Graham Hancock – The War on Consciousness Yet another TED talk banned by the TED community due to the challenge it poses to mainstream science. The talk was done at a TEDx conference and aired on the TEDx …

Pierre Levy: Giulio Tononi on Consciousness as Integrated Information – A Provisional Manifesto

Worth a second look! Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto Giulio Tononi The Biological Bulletin, 2008 The integrated information theory (IIT) starts from phenomenology and makes use of thought experiments to claim that consciousness is integrated information. Specifically: (i) the quantity of consciousness corresponds to the amount of integrated information generated by a complex …

Robert Steele: Plant Language, Plant Consciousness, True Cost Economics, Big Data and the Coming Bio-Mimicry Revolution

I’ve known for decades that plants can see and hear and sense and communicate feelings —  the 1970’s experiment with plants witnessing an individual “murdering” on of their own, and then the plants reacting on a polygraph machine when  the one individual out of a line of many individuals came back into the room, was …

SchwartzReport: Physics Revolution – Discovering Consciousness as Matter

This report on the latest developments concerning consciousness research in physics is a wonderful illustration of a trend: the cutting edge of physicalist research is confronting consciousness. It is now one step away. Note two things: 1) the acknowledgement that the model is incomplete, missing a link, and a paradox: “why does the information content …

Guy Murchie: The Transcendence of Consciousness

DharmaCafe says: For all that is being written today about spirituality and the “new biology,”  bestselling science popularizer Guy Murchie’s classic work, The Seven Mysteries of Life, published in 1978, may come closest to touching divinity. by Guy Murchie To think of worlds beyond this world and muse upon the idea of one’s consciousness being …