Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Introduction -- Body matter -- 1. Defining Consciousness -- 1.1 The idea of consciousness -- 1.2 The origins of consciousness studies -- 1.3 The development of consciousness studies -- 1.4 Words -- 1.5 Self-consciousness -- 1.6 The seat of consciousness -- 1.7 Consciousness and the will -- 1.8 Subjective explorations of consciousness -- Synopsis -- 2. Quantum -- 2.1 Interpreting quantum theory -- 2.2 Certain uncertainty -- 2.3 What is quantum theory about? -- 2.4 But what about "The Field"? -- 2.5 Measurement and consciousness -- 2.6 Entanglement (spooky action at a distance) -- 2.7 Quantum theory today -- 2.8 Quantum cosmology -- 2.9 Histories: collapse without collapse -- 2.10 Selection in quantum cosmology -- 2.11 Between knowing and being -- Synopsis -- 3. The Mind and its Logics: Knowing -- 3.1 The reinvention of knowing -- 3.2 The start of the separation: the language of duality -- 3.3 The rise of the propositional -- 3.4 Logic and mind -- 3.5 Truth and context -- Synopsis -- 4. The Reinvention of Quantum Logic -- 4.1 Birkhoff-von Neumann logic -- 4.2 Context and degrees of truth -- 4.3 Superposition -- Synopsis -- 5. What Does Consciousness Do? -- 5.1 Where the (quantum) buck stops -- 5.2 The operation of consciousness -- 5.3 Epiphenomenalism and the will -- 5.4 Models of the action of consciousness -- 5.5 Stapp's model -- 5.6 Orchestrated Objective Reduction -- 5.7 Assertion -- 5.8 The choice of nature -- 5.9 What does consciousness do to consciousness? -- Synopsis -- 6. What Things Are Conscious? -- 6.1 Chasing consciousness -- 6.2 A propositional view of panpsychism -- 6.3 Things -- 6.4 The cosmos -- Synopsis -- 7. A New Programme for Consciousness Research -- 7.1 The central aim -- 7.2 The pitfalls of the transliminal -- 7.3 Models of spirit -- 7.4 Praxis.

7.5 Directions for the future -- 7.6 Wholeness -- Synopsis -- Back matter -- References -- Also available.