Title: Understanding consciousness /
Authors: Velmans, Max, 1942-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Consciousness.; Neuropsychology
Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- pt. I. Mind-body theories and their problems. 1. What is consciousness? ; 2. Is there a conscious soul in the brain? ; 3. Are mind and matter the same thing? ; 4. Are mind and consciousness just activities? ; 5. Could robots be conscious? -- pt. II. A new analysis: how to marry science with experience. 6. Conscious phenomenology and common sense ; 7. Experienced worlds, the world described by physics, and the thing itself ; 8. Subjective, intersubjective and objective science ; 9. Consciousness, brains and human information processing -- pt. III. A new synthesis: reflexive monism. 10. What consciousness is ; 11. What consciousness does ; 12. Self-consciousness in a reflexive universe -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.