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Module 0: Key Texts
Recommended for Module 0
| TEXT | NOTES |
| David Chalmers, “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness” (1995) | The original hard problem paper. Journal of Consciousness Studies 2(3): 200–219. Read carefully and slowly. This paper changed the field. |
| Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney, Chapter 1 | The clearest modern statement of the case against production theory and for analytic idealism. |
| William James, Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine (1898) | The transmission/filter argument in its original and most elegant form. |
| Edward Kelly et al., Irreducible Mind, Introduction | Sets the context for the entire course: a comprehensive scholarly case that consciousness exceeds the brain. |
Recommended Additional Reading
| TEXT | NOTES |
| Philip Goff, Galileo’s Error (2019) | Accessible introduction to panpsychism and the historical roots of the hard problem. |
| Giulio Tononi, “Consciousness as Integrated Information” (2004) | Original IIT paper. BMC Neuroscience 5:42. |
| Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954) | Brief, essential, and beautifully written. The filter model brought to life through direct experience. |
| Dean Radin, The Conscious Universe, Chapters 1–2 (1997) | Historical and statistical introduction to the psi research literature. |