by Bernard J. Baars | Feb 8, 2021 | conscious brain, Sciencephobia
For reasons that drive scientists close to despair, many media writers get science stories wrong. They make small advances look like Great Leaps Forward, and when really big steps take place they usually miss the real story. This is sad, because real science is such a...
by Bernard J. Baars | Jan 27, 2021 | Global Workspace Theory
The new identification of the global workspace results from the intersection of key causal brain regions involved in orchestrating the performance of seven cognitive tasks and the resting state. Credit: Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona An important new article by...
by Bernard J. Baars | Dec 9, 2020 | animal consciousness, conscious brain, Podcast, Psychobiology
. . . “The only way we get certainty or stability in the world is to start from what we know, and gradually move to what we don’t know.” – Bernard...
by Bernard J. Baars | Nov 18, 2020 | Conscious Experiences, Feelings of knowing, mindbrain, Podcast, Psychobiology, Unconscious States
“Consciousness can be firmly embedded in biology, based on the fact that all kinds of [demonstrably biological] processes that are not [by themselves] conscious are important for conscious process[ing].” — David Edelman, PhD, a neuroscientist and a...
by Bernard J. Baars | Oct 22, 2020 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Podcast, Psychobiology
“Episodic memory involves conscious experiences being encoded. Same goes for semantic and autobiographical memories. All varieties of memories come in through conscious moments of recall. So, I think that consciousness is the means by which any kinds of memories...
by Bernard J. Baars | Sep 22, 2020 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Psychobiology
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” And I think ultimately that’s the test of a construct like Global Workspace Theory – does it lead us to greater knowledge? Does it suggest areas of research? Does it make predictions that we can...
by Bernard J. Baars | Aug 22, 2020 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Podcast, Psychobiology
“I want to try to understand consciousness from a neuroanatomy and neuro-function standpoint. What would consciousness look like in a brain scanner and other types of imaging? What are we looking for, in a sense, and could I predict from basically the...
by Bernard J. Baars | Jul 5, 2020 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Psychobiology
In this uplifting episode recorded at La Jolla landmark D.G. Wills Books, neuroscientists Bernie Baars & David Edelman unpack the nature of consciousness — the ineffable sense of ‘aboutness’ each one of us experiences that encompasses features of the outside...
