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Acknowledgements (Landscape of Consciousness Website)
Special appreciation to David Chalmers for his assessment, advice, and guidance, including for tweaking the taxonomy from article to website (upgrading Eliminativism/Illusionism, First-Order, and High-Order to subcategory status under Materialism), and for recommending additional theories/theorists.
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Acknowledgements (“A Landscape of Consciousness” Article)
For over 25 years, Closer To Truth, public television series and global resource—the Closer To Truth website and Closer To Truth YouTube channel—has been a central part of my life and Closer To Truth interviews are a primary source for this Landscape of Consciousness article. Peter Getzels is the co-creator, producer and director of Closer To Truth and I am pleased to acknowledge him first. Peter and I have been working together since 2006, producing and broadcasting over 300 TV episodes (and counting) and over 5,000 web videos. It is hard to overstate the complexity of a Closer To Truth TV episode, for which Peter is responsible: planning relevant and visually interesting filming locations; organizing large crews (12–15 members) and complex equipment; coordinating guest logistics; and managing the myriad steps in post-production hands-on. Most important, Peter's creativity in the edit, integrating sophisticated knowledge of the content with engaging imagery and music.
For astute comments and enhancing ideas for the Landscape, and for the superb graphic of the Landscape (Fig. 3), my special thanks to Àlex Gómez-Marín. For feedback on the manuscript, thanks to Thomas Clark, Philip Goff, George Ellis, Edward Kelly, Galen Strawson—and to a global band of volunteer proofreaders led by Sean Slocum (including Yaroslav Levchenko, from Ukraine, just prior to his being conscripted and sent to the front line, where he is now missing in action). For additional theories, thanks to Moisés Alvarez, Àlex Gómez-Marín, Kevin McLeod, and Uziel Awret. For technical support, thanks to Joshua Favara and Sean Slocum. My appreciation to an anonymous reviewer for very helpful suggestions. My appreciation to the superb Elsevier production team, led by journal manager Sridhar Venkataraman.
Acknowledgements (General)
I express deep appreciation to friends and colleagues, largely philosophers and scientists, who over the years have enriched my appreciation and understanding of consciousness and all that relates to it, including (alphabetically): Susan Blackmore, Ned Block, Sean Carroll, David Chalmers, Paul Davies, Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, Àlex Gómez-Marín, Christof Koch, John Leslie, Colin McGinn, Marvin Minsky, Yujin Nagasawa, Roger Penrose, John Searle, Galen Strawson, Richard Swinburne, Raymond Tallis, Peter van Inwagen. In addition (alphabetically): Scott Aaronson, W. Ross Adey, David Albert, Nancy Andreasen, Robert Audi, Uziel Awret, Francisco Ayala, Julian Baggini, Michael Baggot, David Baltimore, Ian Barbour, Julian Barbour, Philip Bard, Deirdre Barrett, Justin Barrett, Roy Baumeister, Tim Bayne, Barry Beyerstein, Edi Bilimoria, Michel Bitbol, Simon Blackburn, Colin Blakemore, Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, Joseph Bogen, Nick Bostrom, Stephen Braude, Mary Brazier, Chris Brewer, David Brin, Rodney Brooks, Leslie Brothers, Warren Brown, Etzel Cardeña, Bernard Carr, Gregory Chaitin, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Anjan Chatterjee, Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, Stephen Chorover, Patricia Churchland, Andy Clark, Thomas Clark, Philip Clayton, Carmine Clemente, Sarah Coakley, Morgan Compagnon, Eric Courchesne, William Lane Craig, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Antonio Damasio, Andrew Davis, Edward de Bono, Helen De Cruz, Terrence Deacon, David Deutsch, Diana Deutsch, Hubert Dreyfus, John Duprey, Freeman Dyson, David Eagleman, George Ellis, Robert Epstein, Christopher Evans, Edward Feser, Jerry Fodor, Jerome D. Frank, Markus Gabriel, Jay Garfield, George Geis, Murray Gell-Mann, Marcello Gleiser, Bam Gobets, Peter Gobets, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Ravi Gomatam, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Alison Gopnik, Michael Graziano, Susan Greenfield, Paul Griffin, Stephen Grossberg, Stuart Hameroff, David Bentley Hart, William Hirstein, Donald Hoffman, Jim Holt, John Horgan, Nicholas Humphrey, Christopher Isham, Jenann Ismael, John Iversen, Michael James, Tao Jiang, Silvia Jonas, Brian Josephson, Menas Kafatos, Subhash Kak, Michio Kaku, Bernardo Kastrup, Stuart Kauffman, Edward Kelly, Lawrence Krauss, Aaron Kuhn, Adam Kuhn, Daniella Kuhn, Dora Kuhn, Paull Kurtz, Raymond Kurzweil, George Lakoff, Philip Larrey, Stephen Law, Hiliary Lawson, Joseph LeDoux, Brian Leftow, Bruce Levy, John Liebeskind, Andrei Linde, Rodolfo Llinas, Elisabeth Lloyd, Peter Loewenberg, Barry Loewer, Elizabeth Loftus, Andrew Ter Ern Loke, Alan Love, Uri Maoz, Elizabeth Margulis, Kelsey Martin, John Mazziotta, Iain McGilchrist, Ernan McMullin, Patrick McNamara, John McWhorter, Swami Medhananda, Alfred Mele, Lucia Melloni, Michael Merzenich, Leoanrd Mlodinow, Ken Mogi, James Mosso, J. P. Moreland, Vernon Mountcastle, Liad Mudrik, Nancey Murphy, Bruce Murray, Michael Murray, George Musser, Thomas Nagel, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Denis Noble, Alva Noë, Sherwin Nuland, Timothy O'Connor, Don Page, David Papineau, Derek Parfit, Sam Parnia, Sudip Patra, Franklin Perkins, Sara Manning Peskin, Massimo Pigliucci, Alvin Plantinga, John Polkinghorne, Dean Radin, V. S. Ramachandran, Varadaraja V. Raman, Martin Rees, Mel Rogers, Alex Rosenberg, Adina Roskies, Carlo Rovelli, Bede Rundel, Michael Ruse, Robert John Russell, John Sanfey, Swami Sarvapriyananda, Arnold Scheibel, John Schlag, Marilyn Schlitz, Simone Schnall, Susan Schneider, Jonathan Schooler, Erin Schuman, Eric Schwitzgebel, Aaron Segal, Terrance Sejnowski, Anil Seth, Alan Shapiro, David Shatz, Rupert Sheldrake, Michael Shermer, Eduard Shyfrin, Walter Sinnott-Amrstong, Todd Siler, John Smart, Barry Smith, Huston Smith, Lee Smolin, Henry Stapp, Christopher Stewart, Robert Stickgold, Eleonore Stump, Ganapathy Subramaniam, Joshua Swamidass, James Tabor, Charles Tart, Jill Tartar, Max Tegmark, Paul Thagard, Neil Theise, Evan Thompson, William Irwin Thompson, Alan Tobin, James Tobin, Giulio Tononi, John Torday, Mark Tramo, Robert Trivers, Peter Tse, Bas van Fraassen, Sara Imari Walker, David Wallace, Roger Walsh, Keith Ward, Steven Weinberg, Thalia Wheatley, Frank Wilczek, Fred Alan Wolf, Judith Wolfe, Stephen Wolfram, Yang Xiao, Venerable Yifa, Gino Yu, Hamza Yusuf, Eran Zaidel, Carol Zaleski, Semir Zeki, Aaron Zhu, Celine Zhu, Dean Zimmerman, among others—almost all of whom appear on Closer To Truth.