The CCRG’s research revolves around the design and implementation of cognitive, sometimes "conscious," software agents, their computational applications, and their use in cognitive modeling.

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The Australian National University Centre for Consciousness was set up in August 2004 as part of David Chalmers' ARC Federation Fellowship project. The project statement is as follows:

This project aims to develop a research centre that will be a world leader in the study of consciousness. The focus will be the question: how does human consciousness represent the world? The science of consciousness has seen explosive growth internationally in the last decade, but the relationship between consciousness and representation is not well-understood. Through local and international collaboration, researchers will develop a framework for understanding the representational content of consciousness and will analyze experimental work at the leading edge of neuroscience and cognitive science. This will help us to understand the nature of consciousness itself.

The Centre focuses especially on the nature of consciousness, the nature of representation and intentionality, and on the relationship between these domains. A broad approach is taken to these issues, bringing in relevant work from numerous neighboring areas of philosophy and of cognitive science.

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The University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies (department of psychology) promote open, rigorous discussion of all phenomena related to consciousn experience.

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Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self. The journal features empirical research (in the form of regular articles and short reports) and theoretical articles. Book reviews, integrative theoretical and critical literature reviews, and tutorial reviews are also published. The journal aims to be both scientifically rigorous and open to novel contributions.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:


• Implicit memory
• Selective and directed attention
• Priming, subliminal or otherwise
• Neuroelectric correlates of awareness and decision-making
• Assessment of awareness; protocol analysis
• The properties of automaticity in perception and action
• Relations between awareness and attention
• Models of the thalamocortical complex
• Blindsight
• The neuropathology of consciousness and voluntary control
• Pathology of self and self-awareness
• The development of the self-concept in children

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PSYCHE-D: Areas of discussion appropriate for Psyche-D, where the focus is on theory related issues, include the following:

A) How do we define consciousness? In the broader sense, what natural phenomena are we trying to understand? What needs to be explained, and why?

B) What theoretical approaches are being offered in the study of consciousness, and how do they contribute to our understanding withreference to our definition of the problem?

C) Just how big is this problem, and why?

Feel free to draw from research, but focus on what it means for theory, not on issues of research methodology.

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NOTE: This archive was originally located at http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/psyche-d.html. The moderated list was associated with the academic journal PSYCHE located at http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au. The editors of PSYCHE closed the list in October 2007.

However, The archive was provided to Internet Archive by the Editors of PSYCHE for the archive. The content consists of messages sent to the email list as public comment and is therefore in the public domain.

This archive can be now accessed via the following link:

• The Archives of PSYCHE Discussion Forum (Theoretical emphasis) (2007) 

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PSYCHE-B: Areas of discussion appropriate for Psyche-B, where the focus is on research issues from an empirical point-of-view, include the following:

A) What directions in research are suggested by theory? What questions are ripe for research?

B) What can we put our hands on? How can the neural (or other) correlates of consciousness be operationally defined and tested?

C) What research has been done, and what does it contribute to our understanding with reference to our definition of the problem?

Feel free to draw from theory, but focus on what it means for research, not on issues of theoretical differences.

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