In 25 words or less, what is consciousness? My best short answer is: consciousness is a system for deciding whether or not to do the thing that you were going to do next ...
Computers compute, and people have feelings. But if the materialistic hypothesis is correct, and the human brain is essentially a computer, then feelings must be part of the process of computation. Computation versus Feelings and the Production/Judgement Model sets out in full my current thinking on consciousness.
Roger Penrose uses Godel's incompleteness results to prove that the human mind has capabilities that are non-computable. I show why Penrose is wrong.
Just in case he is actually right, I have started two exciting new mathematical journals: The Algorithmically Unbounded Journal of Mathematical Truths and The Algorithmically Unbounded Journal of Computable Ordinals. Contributions are invited for both journals.
For every theory of consciousness, there should be a corresponding theory of self-help. Advice on Feelings, Willpower and Living in the Moment is the theory of self-help corresponding to my own theory of consciousness.