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		Chalmers takes Global Workspace theory as a prototype of a cognitive theory of consciousness, but raises the question whether such a theory can deal with subjectivity.
		Global availability is an information-processing claim about consciousness -- what Chalmers considers to be part of the 'easy' problem.
		Interference is understandable in Global Workspace theory as competition for a small working memory, the stage of the theater of the mind, called the global workspace.
	www.ceptualinstitute.com /genre/baars/baarsJCS.htm (3433 words)

	Modeling Global Workspace Perception
		Global workspace theory postulates that human cognition is implemented by a multitude of relatively small, special purpose processes, almost always unconscious.
		CMattie’s codelets correspond to processors in global workspace theory and to the demons of pandemonium theory.
		Two components of her global workspace implementation, the coalition manager and the spotlight controller, play important roles on the playing field.
	www.msci.memphis.edu /~cmattie/Consciousness_and_Conceptual_Learning_in_a_Socially_Situated_Agent/Consciousness_and_Conceptual_Learning_In_A_Socially_Situated_Agent.html (0 words)

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		In Baars' theory, conscious experience consists of the series of representations produced by certain processors that are broadcast by the global workspace to the brain's subsystems.
		The construct of the global workspace does not explain the property of internal consistency, but it is possible to see that internal consistency is to some degree necessary for anything meaningful to occur as a result of a global broadcast.
		This is the chief purpose of global workspaces in artificial intelligence systems, and their utility is at first glance equally plausible in the context of the human brain.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol2/consciousness.html (5017 words)

	What we really know about consciousness: Review of A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
		The global workspace is a neuronal machine, a hypothesized algorithm for the workings of the highest and most general levels of brain organization.
		Since the theory is a new one, there is no alternative but to test it at first against existing data, and then to turn to the future project of generating and testing predictions from it.
		The global workspace conception should be equally useful for this task of predicting results in specific experimental contexts.
	psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v2/psyche-2-30-bridgeman.html (0 words)

	Global Workspace Theory
		Global Workspace theory is a simple cognitive architecture that has been developed to account qualitatively for a large set of matched pairs of conscious and unconscious processes (Baars, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1997).
		All the elements of GW theory have reasonable brain interpretations, allowing us to generate a set of specific, testable brain hypotheses about consciousness and its many roles in the brain.
		Baars, Bernard J. In the Theatre of Consciousness: Global Workspace Theory, A Rigorous Scientific Theory of Consciousness.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /CogSci/GWorkspace.html (0 words)

	Consciousness Research -- Neurotransmitter.net
		A global control structure for the "single strand" aspect of consciousness is proposed as the thalamo-nucleus reticularis thalami-cortex coupled system, which is related to experimental data on the electrical stimulation of awareness.
		Global Workspace theory suggests that conscious experience emerges from a nervous system in which multiple input processors compete for access to a broadcasting capability; the winning processor can disseminate its information globally throughout the brain.
		Global workspace architectures have been widely employed in computer systems to integrate separate modules when they must work together to solve a novel problem or to control a coherent new response.
	www.neurotransmitter.net /consciousness.html (14588 words)

	Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
		This theory centers on certain 35-75 hertz neural oscillations in the cerebral cortex; Crick and Koch hypothesize that these oscillations are the basis of consciousness.
		According to this theory, the contents of consciousness are contained in a global workspace, a central processor used to mediate communication between a host of specialized nonconscious processors.
		The attractiveness of quantum theories of consciousness may stem from a Law of Minimization of Mystery: consciousness is mysterious and quantum mechanics is mysterious, so maybe the two mysteries have a common source.
	consc.net /papers/facing.html (0 words)

	Baars: A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
		The global workspace is the publicity organ of the nervous system; its contents, which correspond roughly to conscious experience, are distributed widely throughout the system.
		The global workspace metaphor results in a remarkable simplification of the evidence presented in the conscious- unconscious contrasts.
		Global Workspace (GW) theory attempts to integrate a great deal of evidence, some of which has been known for many years, in a single conceptual framework.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /comm/steen/cogweb/Abstracts/Baars_88.html (19865 words)

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		Baars proposes that consciousness is the result of a Global Workspace in the brain that distributes information to the huge number of parallel unconscious processors that form the rest of the brain.
		In Baars' theory, conscious experience consists of the series of representations produced by certain processors that are broadcast by the global workspace to the...
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	surfmind.com /web/searchresult.cfm?c=global (907 words)

	Understanding Subjectivity: Global Workspace Theory and the Resurrection of the Observing Self
		Chalmers takes Global Workspace theory as a prototype of a cognitive theory of consciousness, but raises the question whether such a theory can deal with subjectivity.
		Global availability is an information-processing claim about consciousness -- what Chalmers considers to be part of the 'easy' problem.
		Interference is understandable in Global Workspace theory as competition for a small working memory, the stage of the theater of the mind, called the global workspace.
	human-nature.com /articles/baars.html (3453 words)

	jcs Journal of Consciousness Studies: Vol.4, No.4
		The global workspace architecture is examined from an evolutionary perspective.
		The Global Workspace theory of consciousness (GW) explains conscious-unconscious dichotomies in cognitive processing in the context of a proposal about the qualitative properties of the architecture of cognition (Baars, 1988; 1997).
		A second advantage is that GW theory makes explicit use of conscious-unconscious dichotomies to specify a proposal about the architecture of cognition, thereby using an extra source of constraint which proponents of computational instantiations of such architectures have largely ignored in the past (e.g.
	www.imprint.co.uk /jcs_4_4.html (2270 words)

	The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness (Cognition Special Issue)
		Its main theme is the workspace theory, in neuropychological, cognitive, philosophical and neurobiological terms.
		The theory is simple: conscious representations get their content from diverse modules, but this is not enough.
		Dehaene reviews the theory and evidence that supports it, as well as placing it in a context of the scientific study of consicousness and its prospects.
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	Global Workspace Theory: An interview with Bernard Baars \| Science & Consciousness Review
		The original Global Workspace (GW) theorists were artificial intelligence researchers in Allan Newell’s group in the 1970s, who actually built a speech recognition system consisting of a “flboard” with many specialized language processors that could post their hypotheses about the stimulus and then “vote” on which one was better.
		My role in all this was to marry the GW notion with the evidence about This would mean a kind of global broadcasting in each hemisphere, with “movie frames” going by at 1/10 of a second consciousness.
		On the other hand, one may claim that globalisation is the spread of information that is conscious, meaning that globalisation is a mechanism that gives widespread areas in the brain access to conscious content, without themselves being contributing parts to the conscious perception themselves.
	sci-con.org /2005/07/global-workspace-theory-an-interview-with-bernard-baars (0 words)

	Is there Really a Consensus
		neural synchrony, and the theory that consciousness is broadcasting in the global neuronal workspace are instances of the two major rival approaches to consciousness in the philosophical literature, physicalism and functionalism.
		Global availability could be implemented in many ways but the human biological implementation involves specific electrical and chemical quantities, which, according to the physicalist, are necessary for consciousness.
		If Jack and Shallice were advancing a theory of phenomenality or of access consciousness, there would be a heavy burden on them to justify it, a burden that they give no hint of acknowledging.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Elsevier.html (11384 words)

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		While a theory is typically abstract, functional and only broadly sketches an architecture, an implemented design must provide a fully articulated architecture, and the mechanisms upon which it rests.
		Thus consciousness, according to this theory, allows us to deal with novelty or problematic situations that can’t be dealt with efficiently, or at all, by habituated unconscious processes.
		Global workspace theory calls for the contents of “consciousness” to be broadcast to each of the codelets.
	www.dfki.de /imedia/workshops/i3/franklin.doc (3388 words)

	The Dynamics of Consciousness in Webmind
		The randomness theory fills in the missing link: it is randomness which collapses the quantum wave- packet, and this same randomness which drives the neural processes underlying the everyday consciousness of objects.
		The randomness theory of consciousness may seem to be a mere sophistry, an attempt to probe deep waters with shallow- water instruments.
		But, one shouldn’t confuse the valid idea of a global workspace with the incorrect hypotheses that some theorists have made about how the global workspace works; or with the incorrect assumptions that some theorists have made about whether the global workspace is strictly localized or partially distributed.
	goertzel.org /dynapsyc/2000/ConsciousnessInWebmind.htm (6955 words)

	CURRICULUM VITAE
		Newman, J. and Baars, B.J. (1993) A neural attentional model for access to consciousness: A Global Workspace perspective.
		Baars, B.J. (1987a) Biological implications of a global workspace theory of conscious experience.
		Baars, B.J. (1987c) Momentary forgetting as an erasure of a conscious global workspace due to competition between incompatible contexts.
	www.nsi.edu /users/baars/cv.html (792 words)

	Applying global workspace theory to the frame problem \| Science & Consciousness Review
		The subject of this article is the frame problem, as conceived by certain cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind, notably Fodor for whom it stands as a fundamental obstacle to progress in cognitive science.
		The paper advocates a global workspace architecture, with its ability to manage massively parallel resources in the context of a serial thread of computation, as an answer to this challenge.
		Because global workspace theory also purports to account for the distinction between conscious and unconscious information processing, the paper advances the tentative conclusion that consciousness may go hand-in-hand with a solution to the frame problem in the biological brain.
	www.sci-con.org /2005/11/applying-global-workspace-theory-to-the-frame-problem (0 words)

	Chapter 1
		In this dissertation I shall start by focusing on a particular theoretical framework of consciousness, from a cognitive psychology perspective, which is currently receiving much attention.
		This is Baars' (1988) Global Workspace (GW) theory of consciousness, which compares baseline, or normal everyday human consciousness, to a theatre.
		In this theory, Baars describes the consciousness' theatre as having a stage of working memory over which a spotlight of attention can roam.
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		The subject of this article is the frame problem, as conceived by certain cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind, notably Fodor for whom it stands as a fundamental obstacle to progress in cognitive science.
		The paper advocates a global workspace architecture, with its ability to manage massively parallel resources in the context of a serial thread of computation, as an answer to this challenge.
		Because global workspace theory also purports to account for the distinction between conscious and unconscious information processing, the paper advances the tentative conclusion that consciousness may go hand-in-hand with a solution to the frame problem in the biological brain.
	www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk /~mpsha/Cognition05.html (163 words)

	Theatre
		Global Workspace theory is based entirely on well-established empirical contrasts between pairs of conscious and unconscious events.
		These theories have been developed over the last forty years based on a vast range of evidence, from studies of chess players to arithmetic problem-solving, mental rotation of visual images to action skills.
		In the view presented here, global access may be a necessary condition for consciousness; but in the nature of science we simply do not know at this time what would be the truly sufficient conditions.
	www.imprint.co.uk /theatre.htm (7975 words)

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		The science side fleshes out the global workspace theory of consciousness, while the engineering side explores architectural designs for software information agents that promise more flexible, more human-like intelligence within their domains.
		The fleshed out global workspace theory is yielding hopefully testable hypotheses about human cognition.
		The architectures and mechanisms that underlie consciousness and intelligence in humans can be expected to yield information agents that learn continuously, adapt readily to dynamic environments, and behave flexibly and intelligently when faced with novel and unexpected situations.
	csrg.cs.memphis.edu /csrg (164 words)

	Abstract for AISB 2000: How to Design a Functioning Mind (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The "consciousness" module is based on global workspace theory (Baars 1988, 1997).
		The central role of this module is due to its ability to select relevant resources with which to deal with incoming perceptions and with current internal states.
		The theory behind this module was influenced by several sources (Picard 1997, Johnson 1999, Rolls 1999).
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /~axs/aisb/abstracts/franklin.html (939 words)

	WHOLENESS AND THE RATIONAL STRUCTURE OF INQUIRING SYSTEMS CHAPTER 9
		In fact, the theory I have presented implies and justifies a particular methodology as the applied form of the theory.
		Although this study has emphasized the disciplined development of practical theory that describes and explains established empirical facts, my discussion and the interpretations of the authors I have offered have frequently pointed to a relationship between this rational structure and metaphysical theory.
		From the perspective of a wholistic theory of inquiry, it is understandable how a cult of realism might develop around a successful discipline of mechanical inquiry, and how the existence of the realistic cult might force the emergence of an idealistic cult to address the incompleteness of the mechanically oriented rational structure.
	kengelhart.home.igc.org /Dissertation/chapter9.htm (4244 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Its main theme is the workspace theory, in neuropychological, cognitive, philosophical and neurobiological terms.
		The theory is simple: conscious representations get their content from diverse modules, but this is not enough.
		Dehaene reviews the theory and evidence that supports it, as well as placing it in a context of the scientific study of consicousness and its prospects.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0262541319 (708 words)

	Cogprints - Generalized inattentional blindness from a Global Workspace perspective
		We apply Baars' Global Workspace model of consciousness to inattentional blindness, using the groupoid network method of Stewart et al.
		This analysis significantly extends recent mathematical treatments of the global workspace, and identifies a shifting, topologically-determined syntactical and grammatical 'bottleneck' as a tunable rate distortion manifold which constrains what sensory or other signals can be brought to conscious attention, typically in a punctuated manner.
		Sensations outside the limits of that filter's syntactic 'bandpass' have lower probability of detection, regardless of their structure, accounting for generalized forms of inattentional blindness.
	www.cogprints.org /4719 (0 words)

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