7 papers in the library · 36 citations · publishing 1995-2026
Goldsmiths (University of London) 2026 Max Velmans
This paper develops Reflexive Monism (RM), a panentheist, psychophysical, dual-aspect monist form of cosmopsychism, as a framework for understanding how consciousness relates to energy/matter in both the ground of being and the manifest world. I begin by distinguishing “mind,” largely constituted by unconscious information processing in contemporary cognitive science, from “consciousness,”...
Trans/Form/Ação 2018 Max Velmans
Abstract: This commentary focuses on the scientific status of perceptual projection-a central feature of Pereira’s projective theory of consciousness. In his target article, he draws on my own earlier work to develop an explanatory framework for integrating first-person viewable conscious experience with the third-person viewable neural correlates and antecedent causes that form conscious...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences February 1, 2014 Max Velmans
Abstract: Newell & Shanks' (N&S's) critical review considers only a very limited sense in which mental processes can be thought of as either conscious or unconscious and consequently gives a misleading analysis of the role of consciousness in human information processing. This commentary provides an expanded analysis of conscious processing that also reveals the various ways in which mental...
Nature Precedings April 28, 2010 Alfredo Pereira, Jonathan Edwards, Dietrich Lehmann et al.
Abstract An invited workshop on ‘Theories of Consciousness’ was organized in the format of a Nature Network closed group during the second semester of 2009. There were presentations by each of 15 authors active in the field, followed by debate with other presenters and invitees. A week was allocated to each of the theories proposed; general discussion threads were also opened from time to time,...
Progress in Brain Research 2008 Max Velmans
Modern consciousness studies are in a healthy state, with many progressive empirical programmes in cognitive science, neuroscience, and related sciences, using relatively conventional third-person research methods. However not all the problems of consciousness can be resolved in this way. These problems may be grouped into problems that require empirical advance, those that require theoretical...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences September 1, 1996 Max Velmans 36 citations
Abstract Viewed from a first-person perspective, consciousness appears to be necessary for complex, novel human activity. Viewed from a third-person perspective, however, consciousness appears to play no role in the activity of brains – producing a“causal paradox.” To resolve this paradox one needs to distinguish consciousness of processing from consciousness accompanying processing or causing...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences December 1, 1995 Max Velmans
AbstractThis commentary elaborates on Gray's conclusion that his neurophysiological model of consciousness might explain how consciousness arises from the brain, but does not address how consciousness evolved, affects behaviour or confers survival value. The commentary argues that such limitations apply to all neurophysiological or other thirdperson perspective models. To approach such...