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	Science And Consciousness Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The term “consciousness” itself is already difficult to define (see SCR)—then add to this notions such as “meta-”, “reflective”, “core”, “extended”, “minimal”, or “recursive” consciousness, and the situation becomes rather desperate.
		Consciousness results not from a perception of what is out there but from experiencing the models of what is occurring in the environment.
		Stuss, D.T., Picton, T.W., and Alexander, M.P. Consciousness, self-awareness and the frontal lobes.
	www.sci-con.org /articles/20040802.html (4567 words)

	JH/5-1/Julie Reiser
		In effect, extended consciousness is a function of the organism's autobiographical impulse which creates an extended sense of self, or full-fledged "subjectivity," through a second-order representation of the bodily results of the organism's interactions with its environment.
		Consciousness emerges when this primordial story—the story of an object causally changing the state of the body—can be told using the universal nonverbal vocabulary of body signals.
		Consciousness becomes present in its first moment as a moment of re-presence in which the subject, Jean-Paul Sartre, comes to know his life as if he were a third-person stranger to that which was already running along.
	www.janushead.org /5-1/reiser.cfm (5426 words)

	Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If consciousness were due to a homunculus, it seems that someone could happen to have a bunch of homunculi who may not get along with each other.
		Consciousness can be separated into "core consciousness" -simple self awareness and "extended consciousness" - which fully embodies who you are, what you have been through, and what you love, care about, and live for.
		Extended consciousness therefore requires long term memory, and allows planning for the future and imagining the consequences of different actions.
	www-personal.engin.umich.edu /~leta/TREATISE/tfelintdes.htm (2007 words)

	Book Reviews: Smythies, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is also a sustained defense of a form of mind/body dualism in which minds and consciousness (ontologically distinct and irreducible to properties of brains) are extended in a higher-dimensional universe that causally interacts with brains (and vice versa).
		Sometimes Smythies suggests that, from our currently scientifically accessible universe, consciousness and minds are unextended (161), and in that sense hidden to contemporary physics; at other times, he suggests that they really are extended, like a hidden lobe of the brain, but hidden because in another dimension that is hidden to contemporary physics (6).
		Consciousness, therefore, cannot be understood or fathomed without a clear understanding of the nature and function of the brain and the ways in which it affects what we regard as mental states and human behavior.
	www.scientificexploration.org /jse/bookreviews/10-2/smythies.html (1640 words)

	Design and Sense: Implications of Damasio's Neurological Findings for Design Theory
		Damasio differentiates between core consciousness as the basic sense of the existence of oneself, and extended autobiographical consciousness, the memory that it is a particular person with a particular history and memories that is existing and doing things.
		Core consciousness also has other roles (p125) it 'focuses and enhances attention and working memory'; 'favours establishment of memories'; 'is indispensable for the normal operations of language', and 'enlarges the scope of the intelligent manipulations we call planning, problem-solving and creativity'.
		These processes of converting core consciousness to the memories that give rise to a sense of autobiographical self and extended consciousness are strongly dependent on the focusing and emphasizing aspects of the proto-self mechanisms forming a bridge between the transient and relatively stable processes (p.
	www.love.com.au /PublicationsTLminisite/2003/Damasio.htm (4012 words)

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		Damasio contends that consciousness consists of constructing knowledge about two facts: that the organism is involved in relating to some object, and that the object in the relation causes a change in the organism(4).
		Extended consciousness is considered to be a complex biological phenomenon with many levels.
		Consciousness can be separated into simple or complex parts of core-consciousness and extended consciousness.
	neelia.jesusanswers.com /custom2.html (2409 words)

	Baars: The global brainweb: An update on global workspace theory
		Consciousness in the metaphor resembles a bright spot on the stage of immediate memory, directed there by a spotlight of attention, under executive guidance.
		Once a conscious sensory content is established, it is distributed widely to a decentralized "audience" of expert networks sitting in the darkened theater, presumably using corticocortical and corticothalamic fibers.
		Consciousness is the gateway to the brain, enabling control even of single neurons and whole neuronal populations (Baars, 1988).
	cogweb.ucla.edu /CogSci/Baars-update_03.html (2827 words)

	William H. Calvin, NYTimes review of Antonio R. Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens (1999)
		Consciousness is more than just being awake, as one of Damasio’s patients illustrates: "Were you to have interrupted the [epileptic] patient at any point during the [absence-automatism] episode, he would have looked at you in utter bewilderment or perhaps with indifference.
		Extended consciousness, Damasio notes, is not the same as intelligence.
		"Extended consciousness has to do with making the organism aware of the largest possible compass of knowledge, while intelligence pertains to the ability to manipulate knowledge so successfully that novel responses can be planned and delivered." [p.198] However, Damasio generally chooses not to complicate his extended consciousness story with all that language adds.
	williamcalvin.com /1990s/1999NYTBR.htm (1387 words)

	Psyche 6(8): Review of Antonio Damasio's "The Feeling of What Happens" by Aldo Mosca
		Damasio believes that consciousness comes in degrees, and one of the distinctive features of his account is the proposal to withhold the title of "conscious" altogether from a number of states which are nevertheless "mental" and are often ascribed to consciousness of the first order.
		Other structures responsible for core consciousness are the thalamus and the superior colliculi (a tiny structure near the brain stem, sometimes regarded as the seat of consciousness).
		One possible answer could lie in the "autobiographical self" or extended consciousness, which is said to be constituted of memories, and hence presumably also of memories of core self states (extended consciousness, we are told, requires the operation of temporal and frontal higher-order cortices, as well as of the amygdala; see p.
	psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v6/psyche-6-10-mosca.html (5386 words)

	Mind and Brain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Core consciousness is where ‘feelings’ (with their attendant connection to the emotions) originate and is an absolutely crucial step in the formation of an ‘extended consciousness’.
		This, then, is the final step: extended consciousness (a brain state) that he allies to the ‘auto-biographical self’ (a mindstate).
		While he does not extend this to mean that such self-awareness arises only from moment to moment in particular relation to what the brain is making sense of there and then, that does seem to be a logical step.
	www.kinfonet.org /the_link/link_22/mind.asp (1933 words)

	FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Consciousness in the animal world requires a nervous system sufficiently evolved and complex enough that the organism can hold in its"mind" the image of itself or the "protoself" as it moves through and interacts with the world.
		However, extended consciousness, which is another form of consciousness, embellishes one's image of one's "self" with a wealth of autobiographical detail.
		When the extended consciousness of such patients is damaged or diminished, patients have a free-floating "present," but are unable to form new memories or envision the future.
	home.earthlink.net /~denmartin/fwh.html (430 words)

	Amazon.com: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness: Books: Antonio R. Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Eliot's words, consciousness is "music heard so deeply/ That it is not heard at all." It, like Hamlet, begins with the question "Who's there?" And Damasio holds that there is, as James thought, a "stream of" consciousness that utilizes every part of the brain.
		There are in fact several kinds of consciousness, he says: the proto-self, which exists in the mind's constant monitoring of the body's state, of which we are unaware; a core consciousness that perceives the world 500 milliseconds after the fact; and the extended consciousness of memory, reason and language.
		But more fundamentally, for him the key to the biology of consciousness is the homeostatic regulation and its fundamental values: reward or punishment, pleasure or pain, attraction or rejection, personal pros or cons and ultimately good (in the sense of 'life') or harm (in the sense of 'death').
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151003696?v=glance (3424 words)

	The Feeling of What Happens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Damasio breaks down the concept of consciousness — the relationship of an organism to the objects in its environment — into what he calls "core consciousness" and "extended consciousness." Core consciousness consists of the level of the individual’s alertness in interactions of the here and now.
		By contrast, extended consciousness, the type of awareness we normally attribute to humans, requires both memory of the past and anticipation of the future.
		Although it is clear that David does not possess the type of consciousness of normal individuals, it is also obvious that David should still be considered a conscious being and is quite different from a person experiencing an epileptic automatism.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol7-spring2000/damasio.htm (991 words)

	Center for Science in Society
		She argued that it seemed that Damasio provided two different conceptualizations of the difference between the 'core-consciousness' and the 'extended consciousness' at the beginning (p16) and toward the end of the book (217).
		Damasio's proto-self is situated at the transition between the unconsciousness and the I-function in Paul's model, and Paul's I-function collapses Damasio's core-consciousness and extended consciousness.
		Following Paul's description of his theory of consciousness we spend considerable time discussing the ontological state of memory and its function in theorizing consciousness.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /local/scisoc/grad/ideaforum/30apr04.html (655 words)

	Inner speech and self-awareness:
		, introduces a five-level model of consciousness that is consistent with the view that conceptual self-representations involve a higher degree of consciousness.
		I suggest that “core consciousness” be located right in between consciousness and self-awareness as defined throughout this review.
		For example, primary and minimal consciousness, as well as sensorimotor awareness, all mean consciousness as defined as being awake and focusing attention on the environment.
	www2.mtroyal.ab.ca /~amorin/SCRLevels.htm (4456 words)

	On the Temporal Boundaries of Experience
		That consciousness is composed of simple or basic elements that combine to form complex experiences is an idea with a long history.
		It concerns the fact that conscious experiences are often complex, and the question whether such complexity must ultimately be understood in terms of simple, basic, or atomic elements or parts that in some way contribute to form such complex experiences.
		Token colors (in consciousness) are inseparable from either their token lightnesses or spatial characteristics, and token lightnesses are inseparable from their token spatial characteristics.
	research.haifa.ac.il /~antony/papers/Simples.htm (9302 words)

	Grand UniVerse of Primary Consciousness HandBook to the Void-Chapter-6A
		The delay allows what may be expressed as a “holomotive” image/process in each of its self-created parts, of every part reflecting the process of the whole with different views, interpretations and actions, and therefore of the process of the whole, generated by the varied functions of its contiguous parts.
		The collective consciousness of each group joins with other groups, (similar groups of waveforms link together), forming into the compatible vibration, a harmony, (into the greater mass waveform of the union of first experience as a new species), that is accessed by level 2, the class above.
		Consciousness that’s all it is in whatever form it compounds of itself and Consciousness always seeks a way to further its experience — driven by the Inertia of its own self-comprehending Tensor Field.
	primordality.com /Chapter6a.htm (9587 words)

	Dark Flow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the crucial elements of consciousness is, accordingly, to establish that there is an owner or observer of that movie.
		Furthermore, as she is not operating in extended-consciousness, she cannot be regarded as consciously choosing her actions.
		This young man’s focus was limited to the "pit," he was fully immersed in the movement and the moment, re-acting and acting in accordance to his environment, and not consciously intending to hurt anyone.
	www.adhesivetheater.com /kalle/essay/DarkFlow.html (4342 words)

	'Extended Consciousness
		Thomas Nagel's seminal paper that made the phrase 'what it is like' fashionable, asks us to consider the perceptuo-motor predicament of the bat as a way of gaining a conception of a phenomenology that is alien to us but ontologically undeniable.
		In another irony of consciousness theory, Nagel's treatment of the topic is couched in terms that thoroughly anticipate situated or dynamical accounts of more recent work.
		(A) Francisco Varela and Evan Thompson have proposed a 'first-person plural' conception of consciousness that shifts the explanatory centre of gravity from the inner, singular self towards an intersubjective relation between conscious selves in a lived world.
	www.herts.ac.uk /humanities/philosophy/ATT00162.html (743 words)

	FINAL EXAM/PSY 362 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Distinguish what Antonio Damasio (1999) means by “core” and “extended” consciousness.
		Gerald Edelman (2000) distinguishes between “primary” and “secondary” or higher-order consciousness.
		William James in 1890 made some seminal claims about the nature of human consciousness.
	www.york.cuny.edu /~seitz/370Midterm.htm (155 words)

	Codex, Companion of Consciousness
		Actually the corporality of the book is the key to its self conscious role in the storage and transmission of knowledge.
		Core consciousness leads to extended consciousness in which projections of past and future are overlaid.
		Remember, from the lecture that consciousness is a weird artifact or by-product of isolation within a body, within a corporality.
	www.futureofthebook.com /storiestoc/companion (761 words)

	6081-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this seminar we will consider current theorizing about self and consciousness from a multidisciplinary perspective including psychology, philosophy and neuroscience.
		A special focus of the seminar will be on showing that various psychopathologies can provide insight into how consciousness and self are structured experientially and constructed cognitively and neurologically.
		Nicolas Georgieff and Marc Jeannerod (1998) “Beyond consciousness of external reality: A ‘who’ system for consciousness of action and self-consciousness,” Consciousness and Cognition 7, 465—477.
	jbarresi.psychology.dal.ca /Courses/6081-2001.htm (948 words)

	Interfaces and Flow
		This extended consciousness equips us to solve complex problems, follow extended chains of reasoning, and take on tasks that we simply cannot fit into the transient episodes of normal beta-wave arousal.
		Flow states also seem to be more conducive than normal consciousness to activation of the right superior temporal gyrus, a region of the brain associated with intuitive leaps and sudden insight.
		People who are practiced at maintaining flow can remain effectively conscious and creative for hours at a time, with tremendous gains ind productivity and inner satisfaction.
	www.catb.org /~esr/writings/taouu/html/ch04s05.html (493 words)

	William H. Calvin,"Evolution and consciousness," Esalen (7 November 2000)
		William H. Calvin, "Evolution and consciousness." An after-dinner speech at the Esalen evolution meeting (7 November 2000).
		The suggested background reading was my article for the Journal of Consciousness Studies: "Competing for Consciousness: A Darwinian Mechanism at an Appropriate Level of Explanation," 5(4)389-404 (1998).
		• Consciousness is more than just being awake, as one of Damasio’s patients illustrates: "Were you to have interrupted the [epileptic] patient at any point during the [absence-automatism] episode, he would have looked at you in utter bewilderment or perhaps with indifference.
	williamcalvin.com /2000/Esalen.htm (2113 words)

	PSY 362 Physiological Psychology Office/mail: AC-4D06-d (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this course, we will examine cutting-edge theory, research, and methods in the study of human and animal consciousness, its biological and bodily basis, early views about the nature of consciousness, the question of "machine" sentience, philosophical and evolutionary perspectives, and altered states.
		M., and Tononi, G. universe of consciousness: How matter becomes imagination.
		The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales.
	www.york.cuny.edu /~seitz/Consciousness.htm (196 words)

	MBB Harvard Undergraduates - Junior Seminar - Psych 987k (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Visual imagery: Its functional relationship to core and extended consciousness.
		This course aims to provide you with the broadest range of current neurobiological approaches seeking to understand higher cortical function, perception and conscious experience and to give you the opportunity to meet and interact with some of the most distinguished workers in this field.
		You will have the opportunity to explore how we are trying to understand conscious experience based upon current methods and approaches and, above all, how we hope to expand our stratagems and conceptual frameworks in the future.
	mbb.harvard.edu /junior_sem_psych987k.html (1031 words)

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