Researching the development and concepts surrounding Hypertext there certain names that tend to reappear. Some are already inscribed in history. The subject of Hypertext primarily identifies heroes in the fields
of Computer/Information Science
and Literature Studies.
And as a tangent, if there is such a thing, I will put in a few Language and Writing
references. Because the next step is to let go of the Hypertext concept and move on to Cybernetic Systems and Consciousness studies.

Cybernetics Cognitive Science and Consciousness

Groups

Consciousness Studies at The University of Arizona
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/

"We support the development of an international and science of consciousness, which would seek new ways to express and understand the relationships between mind and matter through a variety of activities including: international conferences, Web-based information, and scholarly publications in the Journal of Consciousness Studies and elsewhere.

" --encourages the promotion of open, scientifically rigorous and sustained discussions of all phenomena related to the mind."

Journal of Consciousness Studies
http://www.imprint.co.uk/

" The Journal of Consciousness Studies is the flagship publication of specialist publishers Imprint Academic. Other journal titles include History of Political Thought, Polis and Cybernetics and Human Knowing."

Cybernetics & Human Knowing
A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics
http://www.bakery.demon.co.uk/C&HK/cyber.htm

" The journal is devoted to the new understandings of self-organizing processes of information in human knowing that have arisen through the cybernetics of cybernetics, or second order cybernetics and its relation and relevance to other interdisciplinaryapproaches such as semiotics (cybersemiotics)."

The Nobel Foundation's Symposium
http://enm.nobel.se/nil/symposia/index.html

"-- initiated in 1965. Since that time more than 100 symposia have taken place. The symposia are devoted to areas of science where breakthroughs are occurring or deal with other topics of primary cultural or social significance.

"The symposia committee is composed of representatives of the Nobel Committees in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace; the Prize Committee for Economics; the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation; and the Wallenberg Foundation. The Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation is the committee chairman.

Behavioral & Brain Sciences (BBS)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/

"This is an international, interdisciplinary journal of "open peer commentary," published by Cambridge University Press, with its editorial offices in Southampton UK and New York NY. BBS publishes important and controversial interdisciplinary "target articles" in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy.

Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
http://metaphor.uoregon.edu/metaphor.htm

" The online center for the cognitive science of metaphor is dedicated to the dissemination of papers and research work on metaphor."

Engineering and Consciousness
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/index.html

The Nonlinearity and Complexity
http://www.duth.gr/~mboudour/nonlin.html

Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ronaldl/noncartesian.html

"Traditional Cognitive Science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world, the subject and the object. It is this Cartesianism which leads to such claims as that cognition must be representational and that what sets cognizers apart is the fact that they exhibit "aboutness".

Animus Philosophical Journal
http://www.mun.ca/animus/descript.htm

"This Journal aims at an understanding of the works of Western civilization and contemporary views of these works. It seeks to promote a standpoint which is critical of dogmatic positions both within contemporary views and within the Western tradition itself.
"It is the aim of this page to bring together non-Cartesian approaches to the study of cognition. That means that the main point which holds this page together is the idea that mind and body form a unity, not a union. "

Individual

Piero Scaruffi, cognitive scientist
http://scaruffi.com/cogn.html

Stephen Paige (Lecture Notes for Psyc 4250/8250)
"Limits of Consciousness" The phenomenology of conscious experience
http://cid.unomaha.edu/~spaige/consci.htm

Daniel C. Dennett
http://cid.unomaha.edu/~spaige/%7Eddennett.html
Cognitive Sceintist American (Tufts University) http://cid.unomaha.edu/~spaige/dennett.html

"Dennett is one of the foremost determinists today, advocating a mechanical explanation of consciousness. His major work, Consciousness Explained, posits a theory that consciousness is an abstraction built from a linear narrative of one's life, based on a functionalist view of cognitive science."

Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
http://cid.unomaha.edu/~spaige/5250.html

Ralph Abraham UCSC author, mathematician, science, chaos, dynamics, complexity
http://euro.net/mark-space/bioRalphAbraham.html

"Ralph Abraham... earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1960. He participated in the creation of global analysis, a new branch of mathematics, while teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He has been at the University of California at Santa Cruz since 1968, where he has been a leader in the new theories of nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and bifurcation.

MEANING OUT OF CHAOS
Complexity: A New Science For A Postmodern World Lecture notes 1998
http://pcc.ciis.edu/complexity/complexitylecture1.html

"Conclusions Complexity is about the emergent properties of the whole. It is the very opposite of reductionism. This new science presents both empirical and theoretical evidence of very fundamental incompleteness in the reductionistic approach to understanding the world. It opens our western mind to a new relationship with the complexity of life that has existed on Earth for 4 billion years as well as the complexity in which we live out our cultural and individual lives.  

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