Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research Volume 2 Issue 8: The Possibility of Metaphysical Knowledge and Insight

Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research ("JCER," http://www.jcer.com) is a publication in which scientists, philosophers and other learned scholars publish their research results and express their views on the nature, origin and mechanism of consciousness. In doing so, we hope that one day we will be able to arrive at a genuine science of consciousness. This is JCER Volume 2 Issue 8 first published in November 2011. It is a Focus Issue on The Possibility of Metaphysical Knowledge and Insight edited by Graham P. Smetham and contains following Articles: (1) The Possibility of Metaphysics; (2) The Matter of Mindnature: Bell’s Theorem Tolls for Dogmatic ‘Middle Way’ Scepticism and Rings Out for ‘Experimental Metaphysics’ and‘Quantum Mindnature’; (3) Taking the ‘Meta’ out of Physics: A Response to Graham Smetham’s ‘The Matter of Mindnature’; (4) The ‘Epiontic’ Dependently Originating Process of Cyclic Existence According to Early Buddhist Metaphysics; (5) The Quantum Truth of the Buddhist Metaphysics of the ‘Two Truths’ or ‘Two Realities’; (6) What Is Reality in a Holographic World? and (7) The Virtual Reality Conjecture.