Science & Subjectivity - Updated Works on Global Workspace Theory
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"The works of Bernard Baars collected here are among the foundational texts of the scientific study of consciousness. Their influence in cognitive science and philosophy of mind is enormous, and their impact on my own thinking has been profound." —Murray Shanahan, Prof of Cognitive Robotics, Dept of Computing, ICL
"bernie baars is a giant on whose shoulders the future science of consciousness will stand." —Antti Revonsuo, PhD, Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience, Univ of Skövde, Sweden
“quite simply, bernard baars has made the most important single contribution to consciousness studies since william james.” —Bruce Mangan, PhD, Institute of Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley
"This corpus is a stunning achievement." —Patricia Churchland, PhD, UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita, UCSD
"baars explains his influential theory in exquisite detail in this new volume, with many updates of his main writings. a bird's eye view of the brain with many exciting insights of its complex workings. an enjoyable read by an expert authority." —György Buzsáki, author, "The Brain From Inside Out"
"consciousness will not become acceptable to science without 3 things: empirical evidence that overcomes the consciousness deniers, a satisfying account of subjectivity, and a global understanding of the mind's staggering complexity. baars is perhaps our most important voice... and On Consciousness raises a high bar for all future exploration in the field.” —Deepak Chopra, MD, author, “Metahuman”
“a clear-eyed, open-minded analysis of the problems of consciousness, and a wide-ranging synthesis of a variety of approaches. for those who want to join the race to model consciousness, this is the starting line.” —Dan Dennett, author, "From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds"
"On Consciousness is an indispensable addition to the library of both students and experts who study consciousness.” —George A. Mashour, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Consciousness Science, Univ of Michigan
"...baars’ compilation will be suitably challenging for those who’ve previously enjoyed such popular-science books as luke dittrich’s 2016 work Patient H.M. The author is humorously engaging while drawing readers into his complex studies, as when he notes that “consciousness science still resembles sex in the Victorian age: We know it’s there, but we tend to evade it.”
within the text, he poses simple experiments for readers to try, such as attempting to “stop your inner speech for ten seconds.” baars ...
Bernard J. Baars is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a theory of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. As professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and as faculty member at the Wright Institute, he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip.
A former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA., he is currently Editor in Chief of the Society for Mind Brain Sciences. Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the Academic Press journal Consciousness & Cognition: An International Journal, which he also edited, with William P. Banks for fifteen years. Recipient of International Neural Network Society 2019 Hermann von Helmholtz Award recognizing scientific life contributions proven to be paradigm changing, which demonstrate outstanding research achievements in perception.
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Professor Stan Franklin and others, Baars is working to re-introduce the topic of the conscious brain into the standard college and graduate school curriculum. Baars has also published on animal consciousness, volition, and feelings of knowing, and has published an approach to "higher" states, as defined in the meditation traditions. New brain recording methods continue to reveal unexpected evidence on those topics. Creator of The Feeling Brain VisualCME series, Natalie founded MedNeuro to advance medical education in the neurobiology of emotion, and improve communication between highly specialized fields in science, medicine, the arts and humanities. Her work is influenced by decades of education design for public and private school systems, arts & literary organizations, and the general public, with productions and appearances viewed worldwide in major magazines and global networks.
A science writer and editor, Natalie co-founded the Society for MindBrain Sciences and is the author of "Sensual Intelligence: An Introduction to Your Body's Language." She is editor of the peer reviewed journal Frontiers in Blockchain: Blockchain for Good, of Dr. Baars' latest book, "On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity," and co-author of an upcoming book with Baars for Oxford University Press about breakthroughs in consciousness science and the global workspace dynamics of the brain.
"On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity represents a landmark effort to comprehensively address, in an accessible way, the various dimensions of the global workspace, from its cognitive architecture to the living brain dynamics through which it is manifest. this book is an indispensable addition to the library of both students and experts who study consciousness.” —George A. Mashour, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
global workspace theory (gwt) provides a widely used framework to date for our rapidly accumulating body of evidence of conscious and unconscious brain functions. global workspace Dynamics (GWD) is the most current version – attempting to account for complexities of the living brain. These updated works spanning 1988 - 2013 trace the beginnings of GWT/GWD through the continued rise of brain evidence and psychological understanding.
since the rise of neuroimaging our brain evidence has improved spectacularly, and the biological basis of subjectivity has now become a recognized goal in the sciences. far from contradicting each other, public and private evidence is generally mutually supportive.
contents
Author’s Note 1
Cortex is the organ of mind. 10
part i.
consciousness explored: making sense of the evidence 13
introduction 15
1. conscious experiences 19
2. unconscious states 31
3. general conclusions 33
4. major features of conscious states and contents 35
5. consciousness in philosophy and science 45
6. consciousness in animals and machines 47
part ii.
a scientific approach to consciousness 55
introduction 57
1. you are conscious, and so am i. 61
2. evidence. 89
3. a working theater of consciousness. 99
part iii.
a cognitive theory of consciousness 113
preface 115
one: an introduction
1. what is to be explained? some preliminaries 125
two: the basic model
2. model 1: conscious representations are internally consistent and globally distributed 203
3. the neural basis of conscious experience 255
three: the fundamental role of frames
4. model 2: unconscious frames shape conscious experience 275
5. model 3: conscious experience is informative — it always demands some degree of adaptation 321
four: goals and voluntary control
6. model 4: goal frames, spontaneous problem solving, and the stream of consciousness 375
7. model 5: volition as ideomotor control of thought and action 401
five: attention, self, and conscious selfmonitoring
8. model 6: attention as control of access to consciousness 459
9. model 7: self as the dominant frame of experience and action 487
six: consciousness is functional
10. th...