1. What is CONSCIOUSNESS? Consciousness Studies and Applied Philosophy: Introduction

2. “ WARNING- studying consciousness will change your life” (Blackmore 2007, p.5)

3. “ Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery” (Dennett 1991, p.21)

4. * Ernst Mach

5. (Oil on panel and easel, 2008 by Rob Pepperell)

6. Driving Experience Experience drivers may find that they arrive at their destination with no memory of having driven there at all

7. What is it like to be a bat? (Thomas Nigel 1974) The bat uses sonar to navigate, sending out brief pulses of sound and analysing the returning echoes.

8. The Problem of Consciousness

9. Outside Inside INTERNALISATION EXTERNALISATION BODY-MIND PROBLEM

17. Seat of the Soul: Pineal Gland the mind is joined to the body in one specific place: pineal gland , a single gland in the centre of the brain, between the two lobes.

18. [P]erception ... is neither a seeing, nor a touching, nor an imagining. ... [R]ather it is an inspection on the part of the mind alone. "sense perception relies on the mind rather than on the body"

21. Honda Research Institute: Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) controls the ASIMO ROBOT 2009 Mind Controlled robotic hand

24. The critique of the Cartesian Theatre (CT) Cartesian Materialism by Dan Dennett

31. Rorschach Test Subconscious Rorschach inkblot test or simply the Inkblot test ) is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex scientifically derived algorithms , or both.

32. Subconscious

33. Subconscious

37. The Functional Human Brain

38. Homunculi Reflect the relative space human body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex (sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (motor homunculus).

40. Physiological illusions that occur naturally and cognitive illusions that can be demonstrated by specific visual tricks

43. MORE Room +Illusion

46. Click here to see the video on optical illusion

48. Perceptual Distortion Takehito Etani: Third Eye Julius von Bismarck Topshot Helmet

49. Spiritual Experiences: Perception Alteration

52. Biofeedback Application for HCI Producing Aesthetic Experiences Bioofeedback Art Archive on MediaArt Tube: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C51BC89CDE587C1F Laura Colmenares Guerra - Lungs: The Breather 2008 BIOS - Bidirectional Input/Output System 2002/03 Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: Mobile Feelings 2002/03 Andrea Polli: Intuitive Ocusonics, Eye-driven sound interface 1998 These artistic works investigated the interconnection between cognitive processes and aesthetic meaning production with the aim of providing an aesthetic experience.

53. Art Works Considering Consciousness Click on the pictures

58. Mirroring Click on the pictures

61. https://my.newport.ac.uk/cs/blogs/mfapractice/