ABSTRACT
The science of consciousness studies our subjective mental lives from simple everyday color sensations that enter consciousness to complex, globally unified, and even altered and mystical, experiences that only occur under special circumstances. Consciousness is studied by psychological science in collaboration with philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. This chapter focuses on some of the most fascinating questions about consciousness that 21st-century philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. The human conscious mind consists of a ceaseless stream of subjective experiences. Subjective experiences, in all their endless forms most beautiful, represent one of the most fundamental topics of psychological science. The participants in psychological laboratory experiments were presented with different kinds of carefully controlled physical stimuli. The behaviorist assault and the Freudian attack against consciousness led to the complete rejection of consciousness from psychological science. Consciousness is now widely accepted by academic psychology as the central core of our psychological reality and, therefore, a necessary part of psychological science.
