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Currents of Consciousness, with Dr. Amit Goswami

By Michael Woronko — 2020

Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.

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Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death

The scientific evidence for life after death: • Explains why near-death experiences (NDEs) offer evidence of an afterlife and discredits the psychological and physiological explanations for them • Challenges materialist arguments against consciousness surviving death • Examines ancient and...

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Chris Carter
2010
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality.

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Michio Kaku
2015
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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles (10th Anniversary Edition)

This new updated and expanded 10th-anniversary edition of The Biology of Belief will forever change how you think about your own thinking. Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain's functioning show that all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts.

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Bruce Lipton
2016
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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (The MIT Press)

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Koch argues that programmable computers will not have consciousness.

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Christof Koch
2025
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Consciousness Explained

Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness.

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Daniel C. Dennett
1992
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The River of Consciousness

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he explored many now-familiar disorders--autism, Tourette syndrome, face blindness.

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Oliver Sacks
2025
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The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential.

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Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, Jon Kabat-Zinn (preface)
2025
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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception.

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Christof Koch
2020
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The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no—we see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection.

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Donald D. Hoffman
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Biospheric TV

Short piece of an interview with Jeremy Narby on the mystery of consciousness and biospheric television. NY April 12, 2008.

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Jeremy Narby
2008
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