Abstract

What is consciousness? -- Conscious souls, brains and quantum mechanics -- Are mind and matter the same thing? -- Are mind and consciousness just activities? -- Could robots be conscious? -- Conscious phenomenology and common sense -- The nature and location of experiences -- Experienced worlds, the world described by physics, and the thing itself -- Subjective, intersubjective, and objective science -- How consciousness relates to information processing in the brain -- The neural causes and correlates of consciousness -- What consciousness is -- What consciousness does -- Self-consciousness in a reflexive universe.