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Ratna Ling 2007 Pre-conference statement As many, if not most, of you know, I’ve been exploring inner experience (thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc.) for over 30 years, using a variety of techniques. Over the course of those explorations, I have arrived … Continue reading →

I’ve been wondering what of mine would go down well with the group. I’d like the chance, if it fits our timetable, to make two presentations. 1. I’d like to give a brief overview of what I believe consciousness IS, … Continue reading →

Here’s what I wrote to Jack a few weeks ago: “I thought I should try to say in a few lines just why I’m interested as a scientist in first-person methods for investigating consciousness — or rather in the accounts … Continue reading →

Nicholas Humphrey is a School Professor in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. He is a theoretical psychologist, known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. … Continue reading →

Statement of Main Concerns Jack Petranker The approach I take to studying consciousness from a first-person perspective can be summed up in this way: “The way to understand more about consciousness is to be conscious differently.” For me this is … Continue reading →

Ratna Ling Meeting.March 29-April 2, 2007. John Pickering Warwick University. Without accepting experience itself as data, research in psychology is Hamlet without the prince, Until first-person data become the necessary complement to experimental findings, the science of mental life will … Continue reading →