JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE http://www.worldscinet.com/jin SPECIAL ISSUE: On the Hard problem of consciousness Philosophers have put forward a series of metaphysics, while engineers claim that information science and computation explains everything there is about brain function and there is no hard problem of consciousness. Cleary there needs to be a middle ground because neither of these extremes is leading anywhere. This middle ground is neuropsychoanalysis. This special issue will unite the best of the best philosophers, physicists and psychiatrists in the attempt to solve the hard problem of consciousness. 1. A neuropsychoanalytic approach to the hard problem of consciousness. M. Solms 2. Segregation and integration of information in an extended dual-aspect monism metaphysical framework: a solution for the hard problem of consciousness. R. Vimal 3. Co-evolution of human consciousness and language. M. Arbib 4. Cognitive and phenomenal integration. R. Manzotti and A. Chella 5. Quantum degrees of freedom in MTs and a connection to cognition, anaesthesia and higher states of consciousness. T. Craddock, A. Priel and S. Hameroff 6. An objective re-assessment of the orchestrated objective reduction theory of consciousness. S. Hamerhoff and J.Tuszynski 7. Physical bases of consciousness and memory. M. Persinger and L. S. St-Pierre 8. Towards a neuroscience of human meaning. K.Tyler and D.T.J. Liley 9. Consciousness, the explanatory gap, and afference copy. A. Coop and H. Cornelis 10. Triple-Aspect Monism: An Interdisciplinary Ontology Integrating the Physical, Informational and Conscious Aspects of Reality. Alfredo Pereira Jr. 11. Consciousness as uncognized but cognizable higher brain functions. L.A.Cacha , R.R. Poznanski and G. N. Reeke 12. An explanation of the quantum nature of matter and consciousness through the concept of representations. S. Kurtev 13. The origins of the brain's endogenous electromagnetic field and its relationship to provision of subjective experience. C.G. Hales "The only journal that combines mathematical neuroscience and experimental brain research for the advancement of a well-grounded theoretical neuroscience." --Gilbert A. Chauvet, Chief Editor, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2002-2007 Indexed in: Index Medicus MEDLINE PubMed Biosis Previews Biological Abstracts INSPEC Science Citation Index Expanded ------- Roman R. Poznanski Professor Laboratory of Biological Modeling The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10065-6399 Office: (212) 327-7646 E-mail: rpoznanski@rockefeller.edu http://romanpoznanski.blogspot.com and Chief-Editor, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience http://www.worldscinet.com/jin/mkt/editorial.shtml