@misc{cogprints596,
          volume = {19},
          number = {3},
          author = {Max Velmans},
           title = {Consciousness and the "Causal Paradox"},
       publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
         journal = {Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
           pages = {538--542},
            year = {1996},
        keywords = {psychological complementarity, causality, consciousness, first person, third person, causal paradox, mind, conscious process, perspectival switching, mixed perspective explanations},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/596/},
        abstract = {Viewed from a first-person perspective consciousness appears to be necessary for complex, novel human activity - but viewed from a third-person perspective 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 processing. Accounts of consciousness/brain causal interactions switch between first- and third-person perspectives. However, epistemically, the differences between first- and third-person access are fundamental. First- and third-person accounts are complementary and mutually irreducible.}
}

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