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Barnden, J.A. (2024). Causal-pattern theories of consciousness: A challenge and a meta-causal response.
          Manuscrito: Intl J. Philosophy, 47(1), special issue on Process Philosophy, ed. Franceso Maria Ferrari.
         
          DOI
          the paper

Barnden, J.A. (2024). Direct causation by consciousness: An advantage of the meta-causal account.
          Talk at Second Web Conference of the Intl Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM 2024), 18/19 & 25/26 Oct 2024,
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2024). (Machine) consciousness, meta-causation, and melding.
          Talk at Models of Consciousness 5 (MoC-5), Bamberg, Germany, 1-4 Oct 2024.
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2024). Evolutionary implications of the meta-causal theory of phenomenal consciousness.
          Talk at Joint Session of the Aristotelian Soc. and the Mind Assoc., University of Birmingham, UK, 12-14 July 2024.
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2023). The meta-causal theory of phenomenal consciousness: Evolutionary adaptiveness despite simulative zombies.
          Talk at First Web Conference of the Intl Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM 2023), 24/25 Nov & 1/2 Dec 2023,
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2022). The need for meta-causation in conscious processes.
          Talk at Models of Consciousness 3 (MoC-3 2022), Stanford University, USA, 5-9 September 2022.
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2022). Pre-reflective self-consciousness: a meta-causal approach.
          Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 13(2), pp. 397-425, published online 22 January 2022, 10.1007/s13164-021-00603-z
          (in special issue on Self-Consciousness Explained, ed. Klaus Viertbauer & Stefan Lang).
                    published paper via Springer's SharedIt service: view-only (22 Jan 2022)
                    local copy of paper as published (22 Jan 2022)

Barnden, J.A. (2020). The meta-dynamic nature of consciousness.       (Published version, 18 Dec 2020.)
          Entropy, 22(12), 1433; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22121433
          in special issue on Models of Consciousness.

          PDF at publisher site           HTML at publisher site           local copy of the PDF

                THIS VERSION SUPERSEDES draft Version 3 on MDPI Preprints system.
                I still endorse Version 3, but the published paper has minor corrections, additional explanation and a significant new subsection (5.4.4).
                I don't ensorse previous versions.

                            (NOTE to those who downloaded a previous version placed here in mid-June 2020:
                                      This was mistakenly called Version 3, and unfortunately has that version number in its title.
                                      It should have been called Version 2.5. Sorry for the confusion, and please contact me for clarification if needed.)

Barnden, J.A. (2020/2019). Time and consciousness:
                                        Comment on "Creativity, information, and consciousness: The information dynamics of thinking"
                                        by Geraint Wiggins.
          Physics of Life Reviews, 34-35, December 2020, pp.46-47.
          Also online from September 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.09.005.
                journal's online PDF (2020)           online version, Sep 2019

Barnden, J.A. (2019). Consciousness, meta-causation and temporal passage (real or imagined).
          Talk at International Workshop: What Better Time Than Then?,
          Society for the Philosophy of Time, University of Siegen, Germany, 18-19 October 2019.
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2019). The meta-dynamic nature of consciousness.
          Talk at Models of Consciousness 1 (MoC-1 2019), University of Oxford, UK, 9-12 September 2019.
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2019). Consciousness and meta-causation.
          Talk in the Open Sessions at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & Mind Association, , University of Durham, UK, 19-21 July 2019.
          the talk slides

Barnden, J.A. (2018). Consciousness, causal oomph and meta-oomph.
          Poster at 26th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP 2018), 10-13 Sep. 2018, Rijeka, Croatia.
          the poster           accompanying draft manuscript

Barnden, J.A. (2018). Phenomenal consciousness, meta-causation and developments concerning casual powers and time passage.
          Poster at 22nd Conference for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC-22), 26-29 June 2018, Krakow, Poland.
          the poster

Barnden, J.A. (2014). Running into consciousness.
          J. Consciousness Studies, 21 (5-6), pp.33-56.
          preprint           journal's online version [then follow link to Ingenta site - same URL but different page]

Barnden, J.A. (2005). Metaphor, self-reflection and the nature of mind.
          In D. N. Davis (Ed.), Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, pp.45-65.
          Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, Idea Group Inc.
          the chapter

Barnden, J.A. (1997). Consciousness and common-sense metaphors of mind.
          In S. O'Nuallain, P. McKevitt & E. Mac Aogain (Eds),
          Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in Cognitive Science And Consciousness, pp.311-340.
          John Benjamins.
          preprint