About

Consciousness and the Physical World is a developing webcourse geared toward university, post-graduate, or adult students looking for a comprehensive introduction to consciousness studies. It is also a resource for teachers to collaborate on Consciousness studies curricula.

Consciousness and the Physical World is designed to provide a foundation in current consciousness research and the Science of the Subjective. One ((Webcourse+Future|goal)) of this project is to become a multi-disciplinary and inclusive curriculum that brings together the broad range of perspectives on consciousness today. However, the first implementations and early development of this course will focus on creating web resources that deal with scientific studies of consciousness (particularly anomalous phenomena) that are often unrepresented in mainstream academic presentations of consciousness studies.

CPW, as a multi-disciplinary course, will focus on finding the common ground among the assemblage of disciplines, and how these disparate disciplines refine and advance our understanding of consciousness.


Initial authorship of the material in CPW was accomplished by Aaron Michels of www.StripMindMedia.net (cache) with a grant from International Consciousness Research Laboratories (http://www.ICRL.org/ (cache)), based heavily on the work and writings of the PEAR lab (http://www.princeton.edu/~pear (cache)), Robert Jahn, and Brenda Dunne.

The site has been designed with collaborative authorship in mind. please contact us if you'd like to help develop content.


Consciousness and the Physical World Uses the TikiWiki content management system, the Kubrick theme and was customized by Aaron Michels of stripmindmedia.

The banner image incorporated maydolancover.gif, which was used by permission from the Geometry Center (copyright 1990-1999 by The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota - see http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/admin/copyright.html (cache)).

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