I shall not address areas of agreement (or apparent agreement) between the commentators and me. However, I would like to express my deep pleasure at discovering the extent of the agreement between my approach to the problem of consciousness (based on Freud) and the approaches of Humphrey and Velmans (based on intellectual traditions far removed from mine). I shall also not take up arguments that are tangential to my own. As I am limited to approximately four thousand words, I shall restrict my responses to the disagreements and criticisms. It is noteworthy that the closer the commentators are to psychoanalysis, the sharper their disagreements and criticisms become. The criticisms can be grouped under seven headings.

1My transcendental idealism places the unconscious outside of science. This charge, in one form or another, is made by Brakel, Cavell, Rosenthal, and Shevrin.