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Consciousness
Disclaimer: As with all our resources and especially Podcasts, inclusion does not necessarily mean endorsement of the views presented. Our aim was to include important presentations from multiple points of view so the researcher can form her own opinions—informed by a Christian world-view.
Definition:
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Colin McGinn on Consciousness (Video Interview)
Resources:
• Refuting Naturalism by Citing Consciousness (Alvin Plantinga)
• Is the Person All Material? (Alvin Plantinga)
• Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? (John Searle)
• Deflating Consciousness (Daniel Dennett)
• The Illusion of Consciousness (Daniel Dennett)
• The Substance of Consciousness Unpacked (Brandon Rickabaugh)
• Integrated Theory of Consciousness (Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy)
Closer to the Truth Videos on YouTube:
• Alva Noë
• Daniel Dennett 2 (rejects hard determinism, rejects libertarian freedom, apparently accepts soft determinism despite maintaining consciousness is an illusion)
• Ned Block
• Arguing God from Consciousness (Quentin Smith)
• Why is Consciousness So Mysterious (Chalmers)
• The Nature of Consciousness (Hart)
Articles:
• Does Consciousness Compute? (Marcelo Gleiser)
• What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves (Raymond Tallis - New Atlantis)
Other:
More of Closer to the Truth (http://www.closertotruth.com)
Related Video Interviews:
• Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism or Physicalism?
People Interviewed: Colin McGinn, Marilyn Schlitz, Dean Radin, Rodney Brooks, Ned Block, William A. Dembski, and Colin Blakemore.
• Does Consciousness Lead to God?
People Interviewed: David Chalmers, Susan Blackmore, Rupert Sheldrake, Russell Stannard, Paul Davies, Keith Ward.
• What is the Essence of Consciousness?
People Interviewed: Ned Block, Colin McGinn, Marilyn Schlitz, Dierdre Barrett, John Hawthorne, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Henry Stapp, Stephen L. Chorover, Giulio Tononi.
• Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
People Interviewed: Donald Hoffman, Yujin Nasgasawa, Leonard Mlodinow, Stuart Hameroff, Peter Forrest, Subhash Kak, Neil Theise.
• Does Consciousness Cause the Cosmos?
People Interviewed: Donald Hoffman, Menas Kafatos, Lotharar Schafer, Stuart Hameroff, Subhash Kak.
• Is Consciousness Irreducible?
People Interviewed: Colin McGinn, Susan Greenfield, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Ned Block, John Leslie, Dean Radin, Tim Bayne, Michael Shermer, Giulio Tononi, Max Tegmark.
• Is Consciousness Fundamental?
People Interviewed: David Chalmers (1 & 2), John Searle, Christof Koch, Paul Davies, Andrei Linde, Marilyn Schlitz, Rupert Sheldrake, Varadaraja V. Raman, Venerable Dr. Yifa, Leonard Mlodinow.
• Is Consciousness an Ultimate Fact?
People Interviewed: Roger Penrose, Charles T. Tart, Fred Alan Wolf, Jaron Lanier, Bede Rundle, Frank J. Tipler, Stephen E. Braude, Keith Ward, Stuart Hameroff.
• Can Consciousness be Non-Biological Part 2?
People Interviewed: Christof Koch, Rodney Brooks, Leonard Mlodinow, Warren Brown, Subhash Kak, Robert Stickgold, Ned Block, Ken Mogi, Michael Graziano, Anriban Bandyopadhyay, Stuart Hameroff,
• Why is Consciousness so Baffling?
People Interviewed: Daniel Dennett (1 & 2) Colin McGinn, Marlyn Schlitz, Mike Merzenich, Alva Noë, Roger Walsh, Hubert L. Dreyfus, George P. Lakoff, Giulio Tononi, Julia Mossbridge, Ken Mogi, Michael Graziano.
Other Resources:
• How Close is Science to Understanding Consciousness? (Panel)
• Does Consciousness Collapse the Wave Function? (David Chalmers)
• Physics of Consciousness (David Chalmers)
• Is Consciousness Fundamental? (Rupert Sheldrake)
• Physics of Consciousness (Don Page)
• Bridging Consciousness, Quantum Physics, & the Universe (Roger Penrose)
• Consciousness Must Be Beyond Computable (Roger Penrose)