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There are a plethora of books on consciousness.

From the science side of things the neuroscientist Antti Revonuso has a book "Consciousness: the science of subjectivity" which has a good mix of the philosophy and science of consciousness. Christof Koch, probably one of the leading neuroscientists who study consciousness, has a few books as well. The Quest for Consciousness is one of his, which has lots of neuroscience particularly visual neuroscience in it. That is mainly science, not much philosophy. Another neuroscientist who studies consciousness is Stanislas Dehaene who wrote a good book Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts. Click on the image of each book on the left in amazon (which opens up a preview) and scroll to the contents page and see if any of these books are the kind of thing you are looking for.

From the philosophical side there is (among many others) Susan Blackmores "Consciousness: An introduction" (an introductory book David Chalmers recommends) and William Seagers "Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment". There is also a great book that has short (5-7 pages) sections on philosophers and neuroscientists and their respective theories of consciousness by Andrea Eugenio Cavanna and Andrea Nani called "Consciousness: Theories in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind". The first half of Michael Tye's book "Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind" is great for an overview of 10 philosophical problems of consciousness. It is very accessible and there are summaries of each problem provided. There are also great resources online such as Van Gulick's SEP article on consciousness, which would actually be a great place to start, and use it as a place to lead you to areas you are most interested in. Here is also a brief introduction to the philosophy of mind (the main philosophical discipline that deals with consciousness).

So there's a few links to some books and online articles, which should be more than enough to get you going.

By the way, there is a free masterclass on consciousness with Christof Koch on the World Science U website. You may also be interested in that.

Additionally you may like to check out the subreddit /r/sciphilconsciousness, which is all about the sharing and discussion of content related to the science and philosophy of consciousness.

I highly recommend John Searle's Mind: A Brief Introduction.

Searle's is a bit biased towards his argument for "Emergent consciousness" throughout the book but he does give a very thorough and accessible overview of the history and important arguments/debates about consciousness/free will/personal identity. Also tons of helpful references at the end of each chapter that will lead you towards many of the notable papers. and books if you wish to follow up in more detail.

The books main strength lies in Searle's prose which (in this book at least) is engaging, easy to follow, full of life and energy and informative at the same time.

It is a bit older than the books mentioned by wyzaard above, so it might better serve as a compliment to read alongside the texts he recommended.

Let me get this straight. Nations have been keeping track of unindentified flying objects and that proves... what exactly? Aliens? Ancient aliens?

Homeopathy is not "partially correct", you are confusing it with placebo, and homeopathy claims to be a lot more than that. Homepathic so-called medicine has an effect identical to placebo, but their claims are much grander and are simply false, not "partially correct".

We seem to be getting a little off track here, and I feel I'm not getting through. I want to recommend a book to you that deals with these issues. The author is much better suited than me and certainly more persuasive. It's very accessible and quite a pleasant read. I hope you find the time to read it.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan

>I think that the original poster, Dennett, and their ilk, probably believe we are zombies...

I don't think any serious physicalist actually believes this.

>They would say that believing that consciousness is anything but the physical interactions is like believing life has a special force which animates it (i.e. vitalism), as opposed to being merely physics and chemistry.

Quite right. I also see the anti-physicalist arguments as using more or less the same logic as the "god of the gaps" arguments for theism.

>We actually have experiences. The world that present-day science describes only accounts for matter and energy, that is, physical, observable, mechanical interactions. The fact that it feels like something to have those interactions occur in our bodies is not accounted for by present-day science.

Agreed.

>It's just that to do so a new fundamental property of matter has to be postulated because there is simply no room for the phenomenon to be categorized or explained.

I'm not sure how you got to this conclusion. Why would we need to postulate a new property of matter? Why couldn't conscious experience just be a systems-level property of say, a suitably configured analog recurrent neural network? We can already demonstrate how abilities like inductive generalization, face recognition, sensorimotor coordination, grammatical tranformation, text-to-speech, many others can emerge as systems-level properties in a suitably configured and trained network, and as Paul Churchland argues here recurrent networks share many properties with conscious awareness, such as steerable attention and short-term memory.

Do you have an argument that conscious experience could not be a systems-level property of brains that we simply don't understand yet?

Neuroethics: An introduction with readings It covers a pretty broad range, but i wouldn't consider it advanced. It depends on where youre coming from I guess

If you want advanced, I would just read the original papers of the people burnage noted and some of the works they cite/cite them.

Here's something you can read right now: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1OGo3_6VY_0ZGIwZDZmM2EtMDM1ZC00M2UzLTk0NDQtNTdlNTg3MWFjN2Rl/edit?pli=1

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. Thomas Metzinger.

Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Brain. Michael Gazzaniga (neuroscientist)

Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience. Gregg Caruso and Owen Flanagan, Eds. (Part 3: Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Meaning in Life has 6 essays by Derk Pereboom, Caruso, Gazzaniga, and others, and other essays scattered throughout the book are also pertinent)

'Neurophilosophy and the Healthy Mind: Learning from the Unwell Brain' was a fun read. Involved a lot of case studies and the conclusions we might could draw from those with unwell brains.

Anthologies are a good resource because if you read a book by one author you'll get a slanted picture of the field. A new edition of a good Blackwell companion just came out, with leading philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists all weighing in on issues related to consciousness and cognition. Here is a link:
https://www.amazon.com/Blackwell-Companion-Consciousness-Susan-Schneider/dp/0470674075

>If molecular consciousness and the molecular machinery that transports it (in the form of human beings) is governed by the same laws of physics that govern all objects in the cosmos, then like all configurations of mass and energy in the universe (our complexity does not exempt us from this) we are forces tending toward a state of interactional equilibrium.

This is far from a given. I'm thinking specifically of the work of Stuart Kauffman who would say:

>[Any] autonomous agent is something that can both reproduce itself and do at least one thermodynamic work cycle...[and] you cannot do a work cycle at equilibrium, meaning that the concept of an autonomous agent is inherently a non equilibrium concept.

In other words, equilibrium is static, it is non-dynamic; equilibrium is anathema to "life." Investigations provides a compelling enough of a case that I don't know that you can just assert the contrary without addressing how life would work (literally) in a system at equilibrium.

Check out this book on the topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Memory-Emergence-Science-Mind/dp/0393058638

The author (Erik Kandel) is a nobel prize winner who did research on the physiology of memory. His research was in snails, but a lot of the same principles probably apply to other animals.

Steven Pinker has a somewhat uncharitable description of Lakoff's ideas on metaphor in his book The Stuff of Thought, and he and Lakoff also engaged in a bit of nasty public back-and-forth starting with Pinker's review of Lakoff's Whose Freedom? Personally, I come down hard on the embodied/enactivist side of the debate (Lakoff's side) and consider much of Pinker's pop-sci writing to be incredibly intellectually dishonest, but if you want to balance out Lakoff you should certainly check out the computational theory of mind, to which much of Lakoff's work has been framed as a rebuttal. Lakoff's former mentor Noam Chomsky is a founding father of this school of thought (see here) but perhaps its most exemplary proponent is Jerry Fodor (see here).

Neurophilosophy book I started reading and it’s really good so far.

https://www.amazon.com/Neuro-Philosophy-Healthy-Mind-Learning-Unwell/dp/1469065932

See also Neurophysics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurophysics

Much of the work done by the 300+ Scientists at The Allen Institute for Brain Science could be classified as Neurophysics. "Consciousness" by the Institute's Chief Scientific Officer Christof Koch is a good read. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/consciousness-1

Edit: His next book is out in a month. Available for pre-order now. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262042819/

I just googled around and it looks like D2 probably sucks compared to D3

I got this stuff, I haven't had my levels checked or anything but it seems to get into your system faster, and people in the reviews were saying they got their levels tested and they increased a lot

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Or his book I am a Strange Loop would seem to be up your alley