F References
F.1 Core Texts on Consciousness
Baars, B. J. (1988). A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge University Press.
Block, N. (1995). On a confusion about a function of consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18(2), 227–247.
Chalmers, D. J. (1995). Facing up to the problem of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2(3), 200–219.
Chalmers, D. J. (1996). The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford University Press.
Crick, F., & Koch, C. (1990). Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness. Seminars in the Neurosciences, 2, 263–275.
Dehaene, S. (2014). Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts. Viking.
Dehaene, S., & Changeux, J.-P. (2011). Experimental and theoretical approaches to conscious processing. Neuron, 70(2), 200–227.
Dennett, D. C. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown and Company.
Edelman, G. M. (2004). Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness. Yale University Press.
Feinberg, T. E., & Mallatt, J. M. (2016). The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience. MIT Press.
Graziano, M. S. A. (2013). Consciousness and the Social Brain. Oxford University Press.
Lamme, V. A. F. (2006). Towards a true neural stance on consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(11), 494–501.
Nagel, T. (1974). What is it like to be a bat? The Philosophical Review, 83(4), 435–450.
Rosenthal, D. M. (2005). Consciousness and Mind. Oxford University Press.
Searle, J. R. (1980). Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3(3), 417–424.
Searle, J. R. (1992). The Rediscovery of the Mind. MIT Press.
Tononi, G. (2004). An information integration theory of consciousness. BMC Neuroscience, 5, 42.
Tononi, G. (2008). Consciousness as integrated information: A provisional manifesto. Biological Bulletin, 215(3), 216–242.
Tononi, G., Boly, M., Massimini, M., & Koch, C. (2016). Integrated information theory: From consciousness to its physical substrate. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17, 450–461.
F.2 Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics
Aristotle. (1986). De Anima. Translated by H. Lawson-Tancred. Penguin Classics. Original work published ca. 350 BCE.
Berkeley, G. (1982). A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Hackett. Original work published 1710.
Chalmers, D. J. (2010). The Character of Consciousness. Oxford University Press.
Descartes, R. (1996). Meditations on First Philosophy. Translated by J. Cottingham. Cambridge University Press. Original work published 1641.
Goff, P. (2017). Consciousness and Fundamental Reality. Oxford University Press.
Goff, P. (2019). Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Pantheon.
Hume, D. (2000). A Treatise of Human Nature. Oxford University Press. Original work published 1739–1740.
James, W. (1890). The Principles of Psychology. Henry Holt.
Kant, I. (1998). Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by P. Guyer and A. W. Wood. Cambridge University Press. Original work published 1781.
Leibniz, G. W. (1991). Monadology. In Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays. Hackett. Original work published 1714.
Levine, J. (1983). Materialism and qualia: The explanatory gap. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 64(4), 354–361.
McGinn, C. (1989). Can we solve the mind-body problem? Mind, 98(391), 349–366.
Plato. (2008). Timaeus and Critias. Translated by D. Lee. Penguin Classics.
Russell, B. (1927). The Analysis of Matter. Kegan Paul.
Spinoza, B. (1994). Ethics. Translated by E. Curley. Penguin Classics. Original work published 1677.
Strawson, G. (2006). Realistic monism: Why physicalism entails panpsychism. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(10–11), 3–31.
Whitehead, A. N. (1929). Process and Reality. Macmillan.
F.3 Consciousness-First, Idealist, Panpsychist, and T-Consciousness Sources
Goff, P. (2017). Consciousness and Fundamental Reality. Oxford University Press.
Goff, P. (2019). Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Pantheon.
Kastrup, B. (2019). The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality. Iff Books.
Kastrup, B. (2021). Science Ideated: The Fall of Matter and the Contours of the Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview. Iff Books.
Nagasawa, Y., & Wager, K. (2016). Panpsychism and priority cosmopsychism. In G. Brüntrup & L. Jaskolla (Eds.), Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
Seager, W. (2010). Panpsychism, aggregation and combinatorial infusion. Mind and Matter, 8(2), 167–184.
Shani, I. (2015). Cosmopsychism: A holistic approach to the metaphysics of experience. Philosophical Papers, 44(3), 389–437.
Strawson, G. (2006). Realistic monism: Why physicalism entails panpsychism. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(10–11), 3–31.
Taheri, M. A. (2006). Cosmic Mysticism / Erfan-e-Kayhani (Halgheh). Persian edition.
Taheri, M. A. (2007). Human from Another Outlook. Persian edition.
Taheri, M. A. (2010). The Relationship Between Ethics and Mysticism. Persian edition.
Taheri, M. A. (2011). Human and Knowledge. Persian edition.
Taheri, M. A. (n.d.). Halqeh Mysticism: Interuniversal Mysticism, Volume 1. Interuniversal Press.
Taheri, M. A. (n.d.). Human Insight. CreateSpace / Interuniversal Press.
Taheri, M. A. (n.d.). Human Worldview. Interuniversal Press.
Taheri, M. A. (n.d.). Psymentology, Volume 1.
Taheri, M. A. (n.d.). Nonorganic Viruses. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
Taheri, M. A. (n.d.). Non-Organic Beings. Interuniversal Press.
F.4 Origin of Life, Abiogenesis, and Self-Organization
Ball, P. (2011). Physics of Life: The Dawn of Quantum Biology. Oxford University Press.
Cronin, L., & Walker, S. I. (2016). Beyond prebiotic chemistry. Science, 352(6290), 1174–1175.
De Duve, C. (1995). Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative. Basic Books.
Eigen, M., & Schuster, P. (1979). The Hypercycle: A Principle of Natural Self-Organization. Springer.
Kauffman, S. A. (1993). The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford University Press.
Kauffman, S. A. (1995). At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Oxford University Press.
Lane, N. (2015). The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life. W. W. Norton.
Martin, W., & Russell, M. J. (2007). On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 362(1486), 1887–1925.
Miller, S. L. (1953). A production of amino acids under possible primitive Earth conditions. Science, 117(3046), 528–529.
Oparin, A. I. (1938). The Origin of Life. Macmillan.
Orgel, L. E. (2004). Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of the RNA world. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 39(2), 99–123.
Prigogine, I., & Stengers, I. (1984). Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature. Bantam.
Russell, M. J., & Hall, A. J. (1997). The emergence of life from iron monosulphide bubbles at a submarine hydrothermal redox and pH front. Journal of the Geological Society, 154(3), 377–402.
Schrödinger, E. (1944). What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge University Press.
Szostak, J. W. (2012). The eightfold path to non-enzymatic RNA replication. Journal of Systems Chemistry, 3, 2.
Walker, S. I., & Davies, P. C. W. (2013). The algorithmic origins of life. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 10(79), 20120869.
F.5 Autopoiesis, Enactivism, Biosemiotics, and Basal Cognition
Barbieri, M. (2003). The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology. Cambridge University Press.
Di Paolo, E. A. (2005). Autopoiesis, adaptivity, teleology, agency. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 4, 429–452.
Hoffmeyer, J. (1996). Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Indiana University Press.
Hoffmeyer, J. (2008). Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs. University of Scranton Press.
Levin, M. (2019). The computational boundary of a “self”: Developmental bioelectricity drives multicellularity and scale-free cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2688.
Lyon, P. (2015). The cognitive cell: Bacterial behavior reconsidered. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 264.
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1980). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. D. Reidel.
Thompson, E. (2007). Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. Harvard University Press.
Trewavas, A. (2014). Plant Behaviour and Intelligence. Oxford University Press.
Varela, F. J. (1991). Organism: A meshwork of selfless selves. In A. Tauber (Ed.), Organism and the Origins of Self. Kluwer.
Varela, F. J. (1996). Neurophenomenology: A methodological remedy for the hard problem. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3(4), 330–349.
Varela, F. J., Thompson, E., & Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. MIT Press.
F.6 Evolution of Consciousness and Animal Minds
Birch, J. (2024). The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Oxford University Press.
Darwin, C. (1859). On the Origin of Species. John Murray.
Darwin, C. (1871). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. John Murray.
Darwin, C. (1872). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray.
Feinberg, T. E., & Mallatt, J. M. (2016). The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience. MIT Press.
Godfrey-Smith, P. (2016). Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Godfrey-Smith, P. (2020). Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Griffin, D. R. (1976). The Question of Animal Awareness. Rockefeller University Press.
Seth, A. K. (2021). Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Faber & Faber.
F.7 Predictive Processing, Free Energy, and Information-Based Frameworks
Clark, A. (2015). Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. Oxford University Press.
Friston, K. (2006). A free energy principle for the brain. Journal of Physiology-Paris, 100(1–3), 70–87.
Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: A unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 127–138.
Hohwy, J. (2013). The Predictive Mind. Oxford University Press.
Parr, T., Pezzulo, G., & Friston, K. J. (2022). Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. MIT Press.
Seth, A. K. (2013). Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(11), 565–573.
F.8 Quantum, Speculative, and Physical Frameworks
Bohm, D. (1980). Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge.
Fisher, M. P. A. (2015). Quantum cognition: The possibility of processing with nuclear spins in the brain. Annals of Physics, 362, 593–602.
Hameroff, S., & Penrose, R. (2014). Consciousness in the universe: A review of the “Orch OR” theory. Physics of Life Reviews, 11(1), 39–78.
Penrose, R. (1989). The Emperor’s New Mind. Oxford University Press.
Penrose, R. (1994). Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. Oxford University Press.
Stapp, H. P. (2011). Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer. Springer.
Tegmark, M. (2000). Importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes. Physical Review E, 61(4), 4194–4206.
Wendt, A. (2015). Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology. Cambridge University Press.
Wheeler, J. A. (1990). Information, physics, quantum: The search for links. In W. H. Zurek (Ed.), Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information. Addison-Wesley.
Wigner, E. P. (1961). Remarks on the mind-body question. In I. J. Good (Ed.), The Scientist Speculates. Heinemann.
F.9 Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Machine Consciousness
Bostrom, N. (2014). Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford University Press.
Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. J. (1998). The extended mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7–19.
Dennett, D. C. (2017). From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. W. W. Norton.
Floridi, L. (2011). The Philosophy of Information. Oxford University Press.
Russell, S. (2019). Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. Viking.
Turing, A. M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433–460.
F.10 Ethics, Moral Status, and Sentience
Bentham, J. (1789). An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. T. Payne.
Birch, J. (2024). The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Oxford University Press.
Donaldson, S., & Kymlicka, W. (2011). Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights. Oxford University Press.
Gruen, L. (2011). Ethics and Animals: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
Regan, T. (1983). The Case for Animal Rights. University of California Press.
Singer, P. (2011). The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress. Princeton University Press.
Singer, P. (1975). Animal Liberation. HarperCollins.
F.11 Indigenous, Relational, and Ecological Perspectives
Berkes, F. (2012). Sacred Ecology. Routledge.
Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions.
Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press.
Plumwood, V. (2002). Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason. Routledge.
Watts, V. (2013). Indigenous place-thought and agency amongst humans and non-humans. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2(1), 20–34.