Introduction 3: Reading List

Suggested reading list for quantum consciousness studies

General:
Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem                                    - Jeffrey Gray
Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, & Neural Theories              - David Rose
Mind Brain & Quantum                                                                               - Michael Lockwood
The Physical Nature of Consciousness                                                        - Ed: Philip Van Loocke
Physiological Basis & Quantum Versions of and Consciousness                - Arthur Hudson
Quantum Aspects of Life                                                                            - Abbott, Davies & Pati
The Quantum Brain    - J. Satinover
Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness                              - Rosenblum & Kuttner
The World in Your Head                                  - Steven Lehar

For David Bohm:
Wholeness and the Implicate Order - David Bohm

For Henry Stapp:
Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics - Henry Stapp

For Penrose/Hameroff Orch OR theory:
The Emerging Physics of Consciousness - Ed. Jack Tuszynski
The Emperor's New Mind                        - Roger Penrose
Godel's Proof                                            - Ernest Nagel & James Newman
Logic                                                         - Paul Tomassi
Shadows of the Mind                                - Roger Penrose
Ultimate Computing                                 - Stuart Hameroff
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For quantum brain dynamics:
Brain and Being                                               - Gordon Globus, Karl Pribram, Giuseppe Vitiello
My Double Unveiled                                       - Giuseppe Vitiello
Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness - Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue

For Emotions:
Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp
Emotion Explained         - Edmund Rolls
Molecules of Emotion     - Candace Pert
The Orbitofrontal Cortex - David Zald & Scott Rauch

For Freewill:
Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will - Eds. John Baer, James Kaurman & Roy Baumeister
Mind Time - Benjamin Libet
A Mind So Rare - Merlin Donald

For mainstream consciousness theory
The Astonishing Hypothesis    -   Francis Crick
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire            -   Gerald Edelman
The conscious Mind                  -   David Chalmers
Consciousness Explained          - Daniel Dennett
Evolving the Mind                     - A. Cairns-Smith
The Mystery of Consciousness - John Searle
The Science of Consciousness    - Max Velmans
Understanding consciousness    - Max Velmans
Wider than the Sky                     - Gerald Edelman

For Neuroscience and Biology:
The Anatomy of Thought                   - Ian Glynn
Biochemistry                                       - Mary Campbell
Cognitive Neuroscience                      -   Gazzaniga, Ivry & Mangun
Consciousness Lost and found           -   Lawrence Weiskrantz
Descartes' Error                                   - Antonio Damasio
Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology - Martini & Bartholomew
The Executive Brain                             - Elkhonon Goldberg
Explaining the Brain                            -   Carl Craver
The Human Brain                                 - Susan Greenfield
The Illusion of Conscious Will             - Daniel Wegner
i of the Vortex                                      -   Llinas, R.
Memory: From Mind to Molecules      - Larry Squire & Eric Kandel
Molecular Biology of the Cell               - Taylor & Francis Group
A neural mechanism that randomises behaviour - R.H.S. Carpenter - Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, (1999), pp. 13-22
Neuroscience                                        -   Eds. Bear, Connors & Paradiso
The Number Sense                               - Stanislas Dehaene
The Orbitofrontal Cortex                      - David Zald & Scott Rauch
The Private Life of the Brain                 - Susan Greenfield
Quantum entanglement of K+ ions, multiple channel states and the role of noise in the brain - Bernroider, G. & Roy, S. - International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) vol. 5841
Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems - Nature, vol. 446, pp. 782-6, 12 April 2007
Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes - Sarovar, M., Ishizaki, A., Fleming, G. & Whaley, K. - arXiv:0905:3787v1 [quant-ph]
Rhythms of the Brain                             - Gyorgy Buzsaki
Synaptic Self                                          -   Joseph LeDoux

For Philosophy:
Beliefs about consciousness and reality - Imants Baruss - Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 15, nos. 10-11, (2008), pp. 277-92
Explaining the Brain        -   Carl Craver
Evolution as a Religion    - Mary Midgley
Kuhn v. Popper                - Steve Fuller
The Myths We Live By     - Mary Midgley
Science and Poetry           - Mary Midgley
The Structure of thinking - Laura Weed

For Physics and Cosmology:
The Character of Physical Law                            - Richard Feynman
Godel and Turing                                                 - Gregory Chaitin
The Goldilocks Enigma                                        - Paul Davies
H2O: A Biography of Water                                - Philip Ball
The Life of the Cosmos                                        - Lee Smolin
The Magic Furnace                                               - Marcus Chown
The Myth of Matter                                              - Paul Davies
The New Physics                                                  - Ed: Gordon Fraser
Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed                  - Jim Al-Khalili
Quantum Dialogue                                               - Mara Beller
The Road to Reality                                              - Roger Penrose
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality - John Gribbin
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat                               -   John Gribbin
On Space and Time                                               -   Eds. Shahn Majid
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity                         - Lee Smolin
The Trouble with Physics                                      - Lee Smolin
Universe or Multiverse                                         -   Bernard Carr

For quantum computing and artificial intelligence:
Brainchildren       - Daniel Dennett
Entangled World - Ed. Jurgen Audretsch