<P>Scientists and philosophers are focusing more intensely than ever on the nature ofour human experience, resulting in a newly coalescing field of Consciousness Studies that has becomea worldwide and highly interdisciplinary phenomenon.</P><P> <I>Toward a Science ofConsciousness</I> marks the first major gathering -- a landmark event -- devoted entirely tounlocking the mysteries of consciousness. It explores the whole spectrum of approaches fromphilosophy of mind and dream research, to neuropsychology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, toneural networks, phenomenological accounts, and even the physics of reality. The aim is to lay asound scientific foundation for future research while also reaching consensus on many scatteredareas of inquiry.</P><P>Following an overview, fifty-five chapters are divided into tensections: philosophy, cognitive science, medicine/pathology, neurology, neural networks, subneuralbiology, quantum theory, non-locality in space and time, hierarchical organization, andphenomenology.</P><P>In addition to the editors, who are, respectively, ananesthesiologist, a psychologist, and an applied mathematician, contributors include such luminariesas David Chalmers, Michael Conrad, Avshalom Elitzur, Owen Flanagan, David Galin, John Kihlstrom,Christof Koch, Benjamin Libet, Roger Penrose, Karl Pribram, Gary Schwartz, Petra Stoerig, JohnTaylor, Andrew Weil, Fred Wolf, and many others.</P>