The Consciousness Center was created to bring together questions and answers, theories and facts, about consciousness extending to the significant questions of daily life and beyond that to the very nature of what it is to be human in the 21st century. People who are or recently were armchair philosophers, medical professionals, psychology students, historians, motivational specialists, teachers, and many others will probably find something here to interest them.
We are collecting ideas from the vast literature on consciousness to bring to bear on familiar questions such as about the relationships among individuals and about the subtle changes that occur in conscious behavior in both individuals and their groups.
We are considering the idea that "naïve" approaches to consciousness may yield useful information about the nature of mind and its various states.
One significant purpose and intent is to show how different paths toward our subject matter use different vocabularies because of the various metaphors employed. We are hopeful that examination of parallel and converging pathways will provide us with a perspective that is useful.
It may be obvious, but we do know how to suppress consciousness. It is not known in detail how anesthetics accomplish this transformation, but we do know that de-exciting neurons is what does the work. More on this later.
This website is organized into the following:
The frame/window below will contain most of the essays and presentations of evidence and bibliographical sources.
We have also taken spare moments in the development of The Consciousness Center website to write essays (and the like) about subjects that are possibly fertile ground for thinking about consciousness and the conscious, such as:
- Longing
- Inquiry
- Spirituality
- Sex
- Story
- Levels
- Method
- Maturity
- Marriage
- Areas of the Brain
- Female Brain
- Male Brain
All kidding aside, this study of Consciousness incorporates many points of view and methods and languages and vocabularies, one of which may surprisingly be the Mathematical, a video presented here more to assure you that people are working on complex issues, but also to stimulate imaginations rather than to make things more complicated.
James Brett, Ph.D. Website Author