Book description – from OUP list

• A lively, engaging, and authoritative introduction to the hot topic of consciousness
• Serves as a much-needed launch pad for the further exploration of this complicated, controversial, and unresolved issue
• Challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soul
• A clear overview of the subject that combines the perspectives of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience–unlike all the other books available on the subject
• Part of the VSI series; over 1 million have been sold

Consciousness, ‘the last great mystery for science’, has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion?