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Consciousness

o Anand Rangarajan, Using category and constructor theories to build a solution to the hard problem, (abstract, Poster Presentation, Powerpoint), The Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ (hybrid conference) 2022.
o Anand Rangarajan, Modeling Strawson's thin subjects using category theory, (abstract, zoom video, talk powerpoint), The Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ (online conference) 2020.
o Anand Rangarajan, Can a quantum field theory ontology help resolve the hard problem, (abstract and talk)), The Science of Consciousness, San Diego, CA, 2017.
o Anand Rangarajan, Can a quantum field theory ontology help resolve the problem of experience, International Conference on Quantum Reality and the Theory of Shunya, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, (invited talk), New Delhi, December 2016.
o Anand Rangarajan, Panpsychism and Compositionality: A solution to the hard problem, (slides, pdf), The Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ, April 2016.
o Anand Rangarajan, Compositional subjects: A physicalist approach to the problem of experience, (slides, pdf), Toward a Science of Consciousness, Helsinki, Finland, June 2015.
o Anand Rangarajan, Panpsychism, Emergence and Physicalism, (slides, pdf), Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ, April 2012.
o Anand Rangarajan, Holism, Reduction and Consciousness, Holistic Vision and Integral Living, Special Issue: The First International Conference, 1(2):31-37, 2011.
o Anand Rangarajan, Holism, Reduction and Consciousness, (slide show), 1st International Conference on Holistic Vision and Integral Living, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, August 2010.
o Anand Rangarajan, The duality of duality and non-duality, (slides),  Science and Non-Duality (SAND) 2009, San Raphael, CA, October 2009.
o Anand Rangarajan, A postmodern physicalism that can accommodate experienceposter, Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008, Tucson, AZ.
o Anand Rangarajan, A new physicalism that can accommodate experience, talk and slides in Seventeenth International Congress on Vedanta, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2007.
o Anand Rangarajan, Compositions, Dispositions and Qualia, talk and slides in Sixteenth International Congress on Vedanta, Orlando, FL, 2005.
o Anand Rangarajan, Pan-awareness: Building a bridge between panpsychism and Vedanta, talk, and slides, in Thirteenth International Congress on Vedanta, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Sept. 12-15, 2002.
o Anand Rangarajan, Pan-aware Emergence (abstract), talk, and slides, in Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson 5, 2002.
o Anand Rangarajan, A Dual-Aspect Panpsychist Critique of Emergentist, Quantum and Wilber's Holonic Theories of Consciousness (abstract), talk, and slides, in Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson 4, 2000.
o Anand Rangarajan, Summary of Gregg Rosenberg's Ph.D. thesis, A Place for Consciousness: Probing the deep structure of the natural world, 1999.
o Anand Rangarajan, Toward a science of consciousness and toward a consciousness of science (abstract) and poster, in Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson 3, 1998.
o Anand Rangarajan, Book Review of "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience" , by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch, MIT Press, 1991.