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...
by Bernard J. Baars | Feb 22, 2021 | conscious brain, Conscious Experiences, Cortex and Consciousness
[This is an excerpt from Part II of my latest book On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity.] In Book VII of Plato’s Republic (Plato, 1956) we find the following allegory: Imagine mankind as dwelling in an underground cave with necks and legs fettered, so they...
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 | 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 | 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...
