Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-300) and indexes

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

Providing solutions to some of the puzzles surrounding the nature and function of consciousness, this book challenges conventional reductionist thought, providing an understanding of how consciousness relates to the brain and the physical world