Max Velmans (1942) British psychologist
Susan Schneider and Max Velmans (2008). "Introduction". In: Max Velmans, Susan Schneider. The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Wiley.
“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.”
— David Chalmers, book The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
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