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• Synchronous Oscillations and the Emperor's New Clothes?
• The Binding Problem
• Computational Theory and Connectionism
• Subjectivity and the Self
• Forget Qualia, Zombies and Zimboes
• Why Now?
• Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
• Contentless Awareness and the PCE
• The 'Hard Problem' -- Keynote Paper and Short Contributions
• The Purpose of Consciousness
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Naturalism (debate on Psyche-D)

Synchronous oscillations and the Emperor's New Clothes?

Metzinger's original article has three principal threads to it: the problem of "binding" in perception, the use of connectionist models in cognitive theory, and the attempt to develop a "bottom-up" theory of the self. The resulting commentaries have been classified into three sub-sections:

The Binding Problem

• Thomas Metzinger, Faster than Thought -- Holism, Homogeneity and Temporal Coding
• Keith Sutherland, Homuphobia in the Cartesian theatre
• Erich Harth, Comments on Metzinger
• Jim Newman, Reticular-Thalamic Activation in the Cortex
• Valerie Gray Hardcastle, The Binding Problem
• Jim Newman, Response to Hardcastle
• Benjamin Libet, How Can we Explain the Unity of Conscious Experience?
• Susan Greenfield, The Hitch-hiker's Guide and the Magic Number 42
• Ron Blue, A Mathematical Oscillator Model

Computational Theory and Connectionism

• Pat Hayes, On Pre-Computational Ideas
• Keith Sutherland, Response to Hayes
• Pat Hayes, Response to Sutherland
• Sam Salt, Response to Hayes
• Pat Hayes, Rubbing Salt in the Wound
• Selmer Bringsjord, Leibniz and the Chinese Room Argument

Subjectivity and the Self

• Bernie Baars, Subjectivity and the Observing Self
• Keith Sutherland, Response to Baars
• Pat Hayes, The Self as the "Essential Indexical"
• Keith Sutherland, The One and the Many
• Steven Brown, The One and the Many
• Bernie Baars, Theories and Evidence
• Pat Hayes, Phenomenal and Computational Memory
• Mait Edey, Subject and Object 1
• Rick Bennett, Hypnosis and self consciousness
• Arthur Deikman, 'I' = Awareness

Forget qualia, zombies and zimboes

• Gordon Globus, Forget qualia, zombies and zimboes
• David Wilson, Response to Globus
• Pat Hayes, Thank the Lord for Gordon Globus!
• Gordon Globus, Response to Goldberg, Wilson, Hayes
• Jeff Dalton, Response to Hayes
• Roland Cichowski, It ain't that easy!
• Roland Cook, Forget ex-perience too!
• Gordon Globus, Nah, forget Globus (overview and reply)
• Jim Sheridan, A philosophical error
• Stan Klein, Colour in the mind
• Shaun Gallagher, Postmetaphysical Postmodern Posturing
• Gordon Globus, Hello all you out there in Maya-land
• Joe Jeffrey, Qualities and the world
• Gordon Globus, Functionalism and representation
• Gordon Globus, Any dang epoche!
• Paul Bains, Mental qualia v. world qualities
• Tom Clark, Qualia and representation
• Gordon Globus, Clark's inference to qualia

Why Now?

• Pat Hayes, Why Now?
• Stuart Hameroff, Why Now? It's About Time!
• Huw Price, The Arrow of Time
• Roland Cook, Do We Need a New Physics?
• Rick Prescott, Biology and the Construction of Time
• Erich Harth, The Physics of Time
• Benny Shanon, Bergson and Psychological Time
• Peter Wilson, The Frequency of the Present
• Peter Baggott, The Now Illusion
• Greg Nixon, Heidegger and Ecstasis
• Imrants Baruss, Multiple Nows
• Stan Klein, Time Standing Still
• Herbert Muller, Now: The Mind's Center
• Stuart Hameroff, Time Marches On (Stepwise)
• Various authors, Short Commentaries on Time

Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

• Doug Bilodou, Bohr's 'Mysticism'
• Gordon Globus, Orch-OR and the Observer in QM
• Paul Baines, Microphysics
• Rhett Savage / Jean Burns, Nonlocal Correlations, Junk Physics and Bertlmann's Socks

Contentless Awareness and the PCE

• Jonathan Shear, Ontological Implications of the PCE
• Rick Prescott, On genuflecting, rhetorically
• Anthony Campbell, James and 'Over-beliefs'
• Keith Sutherland, Krishnamurti's Dog (and Schroedinger's Cat)
• Robin Faichney, Buddhism and Subjective Experience
• Jonathan Shear, Which is the True Buddhism?
• Mait Edey, Are Subject and Object 'One'?
• Sue Pockett, An Autoimmune Disease of the Mind?
• Charles T. Tart, Brain Damage and the PCE
• Peter Russell, It's a Dog's Life!
• Greg Nixon, Prisoners of Our Own Device
• Thomas J. McFarlane, Franklin Merrell-Wolff
• Pat Hayes, How about just a partial description?
• Jonathan Shear, For better or for worse?
• Charles Tart, State-Specific Science
• Rick Prescott, A lagniappe for the gumbo
• Sutherland/Tart/Prescott, The New Dualists, Gnostics and other Purveyors of Gumbo
• Robert Forman, What does mysticism have to teach us about consciousness?

The Hard Problem -- Keynote Paper and Short Contributions

• David J. Chalmers, Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness
• Daniel C. Dennett, Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness
• Herbert Muller, Presuming Mind-Independent Reality Excludes the Mind from Reality
• Gordon Globus, Hameroff and Penrose's Ontology
• Stuart Hameroff, Stuck Inside Spacetime (with the Memphis Blues Again?)
• Bruce Buchanan, The Hardness of the Hard Problem
• Robert deMallac, Response to Buchanan
• Selmer Bringsjord, Semantic Conjuring Tricks?
• Robert deMallac, On the Silliness of the Zombie Problem
• Jack Sarfatti, Bohm Pilot-Wave
• Jack Sarfatti, Response to Roland Cook
• Doug Bilodeau, Organizational Invariance
• Steven Brown / Stan Klein, Panpsychism

The Purpose of Consciousness

• James Rose, What is the utility of consciousness
• Roland Cook, On definitions and pointing
• Bruce Buchanan, A cybernetic model
• Baruss/Hayes/Farleigh, Computation and meaning

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