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Max Velmans, born 27 May 1942, is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 1994, he cofounded the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society and made several publications in the area of consciousness studies, which culminated in a book titled Understanding Consciousness. In this book – which thus far has had two editions, in 2000 and 2009 – Velmans put forward his theory of consciousness (called reflexive monism) by trying to reconcile the phenomenal aspects of the mind with the physical aspects of the brain.
…each human participates in a process
whereby the universe differentiates into parts
and becomes conscious in manifold ways of itself,
making the entire process reflexive.
(Reflexive Monism)
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Velmans M (2008) Reflexive monism. J Consc Stud 15:5–50
Velmans M (2009) Understanding consciousness. Routledge, London
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Cavanna, A.E., Nani, A. (2014). Max Velmans. In: Consciousness. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44088-9_29
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