by Bernard J. Baars | Feb 19, 2023 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
The olfactory system detects molecular odorants. It has both similarities and differences from the other senses. We often talk about five major senses: vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Actually, there are more than five, like pain, sensory...
by Bernard J. Baars | Dec 27, 2022 | AI, conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Neurorobotics, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
Dr. Susan Schneider is Founding Director of FAU’s Center for the Future Mind, and co-director of the MPCR Lab at FAU’s new Gruber Sandbox, a large facility which builds AI systems drawing from neuroscience research and philosophical developments. For the...
by Bernard J. Baars | Nov 20, 2022 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
The home of the late Nobel Laureate, Gerald Edelman, is the setting for an elevated discussion on human consciousness among three neuroscientists and a professional magician. Bernie Baars opens the discussion by asking what is on top of everyone’s...
by Bernard J. Baars | Jul 20, 2022 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
“I think in terms of consciousness, it seems to me that these Feelings of Knowing are perhaps the conscious tip of the iceberg for this huge amount of unconscious processing that’s going on of all this information in our environment, where maybe I couldn’t...
by Bernard J. Baars | Jun 20, 2022 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness, Global Workspace Theory, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Psychobiology
“One of the major features of the Global Workspace hypothesis began with limited capacity, that there has to be a compensatory event in the brain happening, and the most plausible one, for various reasons, including other people’s work, of course, was that...
by Bernard J. Baars | Apr 20, 2021 | conscious brain, Global Workspace Theory
“So, I want to just return to the Global Workspace Theory. You’retelling me about the context in which it arose, which was in a time when people were beginning to imagine that the brain might work something like a computer. And what I’m hearing you say is that in some...
by Bernard J. Baars | Mar 15, 2021 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Global Workspace Theory
[This is an excerpt from Part II of my latest book On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity and is Part 2 in a 3 Part series on “A Working Theater of Consciousness”. To read part 1, please click here] ...
by Bernard J. Baars | Mar 1, 2021 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Global Workspace Theory
. . . “Why don’t we start out with a little bit of a definition of what we’re talking about when we’re talking about ‘consciousness’, because we can mean a whole lot of different things by it. I’m wondering if...
