NEXT WEBINAR on January 21 st
We invite you to join us at 2 PM (Eastern Standard Time) on January 21st for the second in this series of webinars with authors of the essays of Filters and Reflections: Perspectives on Reality (ICRL Press, 2009). Our moderator will be Dr. Igor Dolgov of Arizona State University's Department of Psychology, who will discuss his contribution to the book: "Sensors, Filters, and the Objects of Perception: A Direct Realist, Multidimensional, State Space Model." TO REGISTER PLEASE CLICK HERE.
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About Us
ICRL is an international, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational consortium of some 75 members, most of whom have been associated with the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory as interns or research collaborators over its thirty-year history. Our goal is to extend the work of PEAR into a broader range of inquiry; to encourage a new generation of deeply creative investigators to expand the boundaries of scientific understanding; and to strengthen the foundations of science by reclaiming its spiritual heritage. Ultimately, we seek to integrate the subjective and objective dimensions of human experience into a self-reflexive Science of the Subjective.
Mission
Our mission is pursued via collaborative initiatives in Basic Research, Educational Outreach, and Pragmatic Applications, all of which focus on the exploration and representation of the role of consciousness in physical reality. These are described in some detail on the Activities pages that follow. ICRL thereby serves as the coordinating hub of a diverse, yet unified community of participants bringing many varied skills and backgrounds to a shared vision for the future. For example, ICRL staff advise some research activities of Psyleron, Inc. - an emerging technology company providing consciousness-related research tools, such as random event generators.
History
Initiated in 1990 by the founders of the PEAR laboratory, in its early years our organization functioned as a small informal consortium of colleagues from several countries and diverse professional backgrounds who met regularly to explore their shared interests in consciousness-related phenomena. In 1996 ICRL was formally incorporated in the state of New Jersey as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public foundation, under the direction of a distinguished Board of Trustees. Since then it has gradually expanded to include a broader network of scholars, currently representing some 20 different countries and a comparable number of academic and professional backgrounds.
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