Understanding Consciousness

Understanding Consciousness skilfully integrates the philosophy and science of consciousness. The book provides a unique perspective on how to address the problems of consciousness and as such will be of great interest to psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists and other professionals concerned with mind/body relationships, and all who are interested in this subject. Book jacket.

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

List of illustrations	p. vii
Preface to second edition	p. ix
Text acknowledgements	p. xii
Mind-body theories and their problems	p. 1
What is consciousness?	p. 3
Conscious souls, brains and quantum mechanics	p. 11
Are mind and matter the same thing?	p. 31
Are mind and consciousness just activities?	p. 58
Could robots be conscious?	p. 82
A new analysis: how to marry science with experience	p. 119
Conscious phenomenology and common sense	p. 121
The nature and location of experiences	p. 149
Experienced worlds, the world described by physics, and the thing itself	p. 179
Subjective, intersubjective and objective science	p. 206
How consciousness relates to information processing in the brain	p. 232
The neural causes and correlates of consciousness	p. 266
A new synthesis: reflexive monism	p. 289
What consciousness is	p. 291
What consciousness does	p. 300
Self-consciousness in a reflexive universe	p. 327
References	p. 355
Author index	p. 381
Subject index	p. 387
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