Understanding Consciousness

Max Velmans is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, Visiting Professor of Consciousness Studies at the University of Plymouth. He has been researching, writing and teaching consciousness studies for over 30 years and has over 90 publications in this area.

Part 1: Mind-Body Theories and Their Problems. What Is Consciousness? Is There a Conscious Soul in the Brain? Are Mind and Matter the Same Thing? Are Mind and Consciousness Just Activities? Could Robots Be Conscious? Part 2: A New Analysis: How to Marry Science with Experience. Conscious Phenomenology and Common Sense. Experiences Worlds, the World Described By Physics, and the Thing Itself. Subjective, Intersubjective, and Objective Science. Consciousness, Brains, and Human Information Processing. Part 3: A New Synthesis - Reflexive Monism. What Consciousness Is. What Consciousness Does. Self-consciousness In a Reflexive Universe. References. Index.