The amount of knowledge on human consciousness has created a multitude of viewpoints
and it is difficult to compare and synthesize all the recent scientific perspectives. Indeed …

We propose the Selfish Goal model, which holds that a person's behavior is driven by
psychological processes called goals that guide his or her behavior, at times in contradictory …

What is the primary function of consciousness in the nervous system? The answer to this
question remains enigmatic, not so much because of a lack of relevant data, but because of …

How consciousness is generated by the nervous system remains one of the greatest
mysteries in science. Investigators from diverse fields have begun to unravel this puzzle by …

The simple actions of everyday life—flicking a light switch, suppressing the urge to say
something, or grabbing a waiter's attention with a “check, please”—remain difficult to …

Controlled processing is often referred to as “voluntary” or “willful” and therefore assumed to
depend entirely on conscious processes. Recent studies using subliminal-priming …

The study of intrapsychic conflict has long been central to many key theories about the
control of behavior. More recently, by focusing on the nature of conflicting processes in the …

This chapter was spurred into existence by the admiration that the authors have for Jeffrey A.
Gray (1934-2004), a scientist who contributed much to our understanding of the mind/brain …

Historically, the conscious and anticipatory processes involved in voluntary action have
been associated with the loftiest heights of nervous function. Concepts like mental time …

In this essay I seek to introduce the philosophy of mind to economics, and investigate what
presuppositions economists make vis-à-vis the philosophy of mind in their theorising with a …