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Zen

Memetics

The trouble with email

Research Topics

Focus2017

Books

A Very Short Introduction to Consciousness

Reviews

Consciousness: An Introduction, Second Edition

Conversations on Consciousness

Consciousness: An Introduction

The Meme Machine

Dying to Live

Beyond the Body: An investigation into out-of-body experiences

Reviews

Chapters

01/03/18 - Interview by Roy Waidler
01/01/17 - Replicator Power
01/01/17 - What scientific term or concept should be more widely known?
07/04/16 - That Dress
15/10/15 - The Next Replicator
21/04/15 - Out-of-Body Experiences are not Evidence for Survival
20/04/15 - The Implausibility of Astral Bodies and Astral Worlds
20/02/15 - The Neural Correlates of Consciousness
09/10/14 - Response to questions on Allan Hobson’s paper in Dream Consciousness
10/06/14 - Science and Religion: Five Questions
24/03/14 - Losing our hands
22/02/13 - Living without free will
17/02/12 - Turning on the light to see how the darkness looks
04/04/11 - Four commentaries in Perspectives on Imitation: From Mirror Neurons to Memes
09/07/10 - Mr Polty and the magic clock
09/07/10 - Why I had to change my mind
15/05/10 - My ideal world
18/06/09 - 30-Second Theories
25/05/09 - A psychological theory of the out-of-body experience
02/04/09 - Meme machines and consciousness
03/02/09 - Giving up ghosts and gods
21/01/09 - Memetics does provide a useful way of understanding cultural evolution
31/07/08 - Dangerous Memes; or, What the Pandorans let loose
08/01/08 - Memes, minds and imagination
07/08/07 - Imitation makes us human
29/06/07 - Everything is Pointless
09/02/07 - Foreword In The Myth of Free Will
17/11/05 - It is possible to live happily and morally without believing in free will
26/07/05 - What it’s like to be a mental model
11/06/05 - Waking from the Meme Dream – Spanish Translation
09/03/04 - A note on the book “NeuroTheology”
25/03/02 - Near-Death Experiences
25/03/02 - Imagery and the OBE
25/03/02 - Three entries for the Oxford Companion to the Body
25/03/02 - Zen Into Science
25/03/02 - Why I have given up
25/03/02 - Memes, minds and imagination
25/03/02 - Waking from the Meme Dream
25/03/02 - The meme’s eye view

Reviews

17/07/17 - “Review of The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience
28/05/13 - Natural born believers?
10/03/10 - Review of Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind
07/05/09 - Review of Zen and the Brain by James H. Austin
09/04/09 - Review of Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life
29/04/08 - Review of Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion
25/01/08 - Review of Multiplicity : The New Science of You
03/12/07 - Tearing Down Tall Tales
01/05/07 - Review of Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
01/05/07 - Review of De La Mettrie’s Ghost: The Story of Decisions
01/05/07 - Sensational Visions of Self
01/05/07 - What Am I? A Strange Sense of Self
01/05/07 - Review of Moral Minds
01/05/07 - Why am I odd? It’s the UFOs
21/07/06 - ‘Me last’ society?
21/07/06 - Heaven only knows
21/07/06 - Cultural Confusion
03/03/06 - Conjure a sheep out of thin air
11/02/06 - Memetics by another name?
06/12/05 - Last great mystery is in the grey cells
18/11/05 - Review of The Wisdom Paradox
03/06/05 - Review of The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects
03/06/05 - Destroying the zombic hunch
28/10/04 - Review of The Robot’s Rebellion
28/10/04 - Half a second to stop being wicked
25/05/04 - Do you believe in zombies?
11/04/03 - No way in to Moggy’s mind
23/08/02 - Review of The Illusion of Conscious Will
12/04/02 - Crossing the Chasm of Consciousness
25/03/02 - Review of Transformations of Consciousness
25/03/02 - Review of The Yogins of Ladakh by John Crook and James Low
25/03/02 - Review of Cosmic Consciousness

Journalism

17/07/17 - Western Morning News – Seeing Myself: The new science of out-of-body experiences
02/01/17 - This Meaningless Life
02/01/09 - Pause for Thought – BBC Radio Devon
21/11/08 - Solo science – going it alone
17/09/08 - Remember, Remember
29/02/08 - Author Response : Memes Concept Too Broad and Imprecise
29/02/08 - The trouble with the trouble with memetics
25/07/07 - Smoke and mirrors
25/07/07 - Don’t just say no
11/05/07 - Response to review of The Meme Machine
12/01/07 - Thought for the Day – Radio Bristol 2007
21/06/06 - The mind boggles
21/06/06 - John Beloff Obituary
19/05/06 - Memes, creativity and consciousness
21/04/06 - Talking Point
10/02/06 - Take a trip to ease your final journey
19/11/05 - Change blindness
18/09/05 - A Place of Silence
23/05/05 - I take illegal drugs for inspiration
11/11/04 - A window on the mind
14/02/04 - Dear human race, Happy Valentine’s Day!
21/01/04 - The world according to ….. Dr Susan Blackmore
13/12/03 - The case of the mysterious mind
09/08/03 - Deluded computers
01/08/03 - Edge Summer Postcard 2003
01/08/03 - Interview in Philosophy Now
22/06/02 - The Grand Illusion: Why consciousness exists only when you look for it
25/03/02 - Scientific Analysis of an “Alien Implant”
25/03/02 - THES Soapbox
25/03/02 - The forget meme not theory
25/03/02 - What is consciousness?
25/03/02 - THES Speaking Volumes
25/03/02 - Conscious Effort
25/03/02 - Meme, Myself, I
25/03/02 - First Person – Into the Unknown
25/03/02 - Alien abduction
25/03/02 - Why I’m leaving
25/03/02 - Summertime Views
25/03/02 - Don’s Diary
25/03/02 - Don’s Delight

Lectures

09/01/17 - Dawkins’s Meme: On the origin of culture by means of natural selection
02/06/11 - Drug Culture
11/05/11 - Dr. Susan Blackmore to speak at HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
04/04/11 - Are you sure you’re conscious now?
04/04/11 - The Mystery of Consciousness
02/03/07 - Darwin’s Meme: On the origin of culture by means of natural selection
23/10/06 - Dawkins’s Meme: Why is there still no science of memetics?
03/03/06 - Darwin and Humanity : Can we rid the mind of God?
03/02/06 - Darwin’s Meme: On the origin of culture by means of natural selection
03/02/06 - Dawkins’ Meme Brighton Science Festival 2006
01/02/06 - The mystery of Consciousness
07/06/05 - Is consciousness a grand illusion ?
17/05/05 - Why are we deluded about consciousness?
17/05/05 - The Evolution of Meme Machines
17/05/05 - Why is there no science of memetics?
04/03/05 - Why is there still no science of memes?
02/06/04 - The evolution of meme machines
11/05/04 - Consciousness – the grand illusion
01/05/04 - The mystery of consciousness
02/04/04 - Are you sure you’re conscious now?
10/11/03 - Now and Zen: A Way out of Cartesian Materialism
25/03/02 - Memes, Minds and Selves
25/03/02 - First Boxmind Debate : Will technology solve the problems of education in the 21st century?

Conferences

15/06/15 - Out-of-body experiences, and what they tell us about our selves
15/06/15 - The Mystery of Consciousness
15/06/15 - Memes, Power and God
18/05/15 - Death and Consciousness: Dying all the time
18/05/15 - Creative Evolution: From genes and memes to a technological takeover
18/05/15 - The mystery of consciousness
05/01/15 - The Illusion of Consciousness in Modern Science and Ancient Chan
27/11/14 - Memes, tremes and the future of consciousness
22/10/09 - Paranormal Belief and Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis
02/03/07 - The God Meme – Why Faith is So Infectious
02/03/07 - Did musical memes change our minds?
19/05/06 - Waking from the Meme Dream
19/05/06 - Life without free will
21/04/06 - Unhooked, Bath, April 2006
06/03/06 - Dawkins’ Meme
03/02/06 - Teaching Consciousness
03/02/06 - Driving beyond consciousness: A test of Multiple Drafts theory
01/02/06 - Mindstates and Memes
17/05/05 - Are you sure you’re conscious now?
28/06/04 - A retroselection theory of dreams
25/06/04 - Teaching Consciousness
24/06/04 - Consciousness in a pointless cosmos
12/06/04 - The role of personal inquiry in a science of consciousness
01/05/04 - Memes, minds and imagination
07/04/04 - Workshop – Teaching Consciousness
01/04/04 - The meme’s eye view of language
16/10/03 - Why psi tells us nothing about Consciousness
30/06/03 - On the edge of the real
29/06/03 - A way out of illusion?
01/04/03 - The Grand Illusion: Why consciousness is not what it seems
15/12/02 - A note on Ontopsychology
21/05/02 - The Evolution of Meme Machines
21/05/02 - The Evolution of Meme Machines – Portuguese Translation
21/05/02 - The Evolution of Meme Machines – Russian Translation
21/05/02 - The Evolution of Meme Machines – Italian Translation
21/05/02 - The Evolution of Meme Machines – French Translation
07/04/02 - Workshops on memes
25/03/02 - On the Edge of Reality
25/03/02 - Memes and the malign user illusion
25/03/02 - Horses for Courses: Testing DS for psi ability
25/03/02 - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
25/03/02 - OBEs and sleep paralysis
25/03/02 - A Test of the Bio-Electric Shield
25/03/02 - Why psi tells us nothing about Consciousness
25/03/02 - Dismantling the selfplex ; meme machines and the nature of consciousness
25/03/02 - Memes, Minds, and Consciousness
25/03/02 - Children’s experiences on the borders of sleep
25/03/02 - Can false memories be influenced by psi?
25/03/02 - Reality and Imagination: A psi-conducive confusion?
25/03/02 - Are False Memories Psi-Conducive?
25/03/02 - The Psychophysics of Death
25/03/02 - Accounting for out-of-body experiences
25/03/02 - A baby operated tape player

Articles

16/09/19 - So long and thanks for all the trips (a tribute to Albert Hofmann)
23/01/17 - Delusions of consciousness
02/01/17 - What if consciousness has no function?
09/03/16 - Memes and the evolution of religion: We need memetics too
11/11/15 - Alone on the mountain
28/04/15 - Testing memes: The Beethoven Experiment
20/01/15 - After Charlie
20/03/13 - Near-death experiences: In or out of the body?
22/02/12 - She won’t be me
04/04/11 - First voyages with Salvia Divinorum
02/04/11 - Response to Dieguez, S.
25/05/09 - The Power of Memes – Russian Translation
21/11/08 - Memes shape brains shape memes
17/07/07 - Memes misunderstood
22/12/06 - Alien Abduction – the Inside Story
26/10/06 - Is meditation good for you?
21/07/06 - Implications for memetics
21/07/06 - Confusion worse confounded
07/07/06 - Where Am I ?: Perspectives ion Imagery, Memory, and the OBE
19/05/06 - Natural selection applies to everything
25/10/05 - Will secularism survive?
28/10/04 - Dangerous Ideas !
25/11/03 - Die Tyrannei der Meme – German Translation
10/11/03 - Near-Death Experiences on TV
10/11/03 - What’s in the box? An ESP test with Chris Robinson
06/11/03 - The Y2K Meme
16/10/03 - Belief in the paranormal: Probability judgements, illusory control, and the ‘chance baseline shift’
14/10/03 - A note on the Sargent affair
14/10/03 - A Report of a Visit to Carl Sargent’s Laboratory
13/10/03 - Horses for Courses: Tests of a psychic claimant
13/10/03 - Probability Misjudgement and Belief in the Paranormal
02/10/03 - Do we need a new psychical research ?
02/10/03 - Birth and the OBE: An Unhelpful Analogy
30/09/03 - Are Out-of-Body Experiences Evidence for Survival?
30/09/03 - Out-of-Body Experiences in Schizophrenia
20/09/03 - Testing the Bioelectric Shield Correspondence
01/04/03 - Evolution and Memes: The human brain as a selective imitation device
01/04/03 - Evolution and Memes – German Translation
01/04/03 - Evolution and Memes – Italian Translation
25/03/03 - Paying attention
01/09/02 - Meditation as meme weeding
25/03/02 - Three experiments to test the sensorimotor theory of vision
25/03/02 - The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of Negative Research in Parapsychology
25/03/02 - The Power of the Meme Meme
25/03/02 - Near-Death Experiences: In or out of the body?
25/03/02 - The Power of the Meme Meme
25/03/02 - Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis ?
25/03/02 - Psychic Experiences: Psychic Illusions
25/03/02 - Lucid Dreaming: Awake in Your Sleep?
25/03/02 - What can the paranormal teach us about Consciousness ?
25/03/02 - The Power of Memes
25/03/02 - State of the Art – The Psychology of Consciousness
25/03/02 - Is the richness of our visual world an illusion? – Trans-saccadic memory for complex scenes
25/03/02 - Comparing the content of sleep paralysis and dream reports
25/03/02 - Experiences of anoxia: Do reflex anoxic seizures resemble NDEs?
25/03/02 - Meme machines and consciousness
25/03/02 - Consciousness in meme machines
25/03/02 - There is no stream of consciousness
25/03/02 - Do memes make sense?
25/03/02 - Alien Abductions, Sleep Paralysis and the Temporal Lobe
25/03/02 - The Question Is – Who Am I ?
25/03/02 - The effect of horoscopes on women’s relationships

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