Margins of reality: The role of consciousness in the physical world (Reprinted)

Preparation of a tutorial textbook addressing the broad scope of consciousness-correlated physical phenomena was commissioned late in the first decade of the PEAR program for the purpose of alerting an informed lay audience to the results and potentialities of rigorous scientific research in this controversial topical area. Since it drew on only our early empirical and theoretical efforts, some of the experimental results reported therein have since been superseded by much more extensive databases, conceptual nomenclature has evolved to more apt language, and theoretical models have considerably broadened and deepened. Notwithstanding, a goodly portion of these early representations, including those addressing medical and biological implications, has remained essentially valid throughout the subsequent development of our own and other scholarly work in this field. Here we can afford to reproduce only the Preamble to this widely referenced and enduring document.