Global workspace theory of consciousness: toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience.

By Bernard J. Baars. 2005

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Task-Aware Information Routing from Common Representation Space in Lifelong Learning (2023, background): “The Global Workspace Theory (GWT) (Baars, 1994) of the conscious information access in the brain states that only the behaviorally relevant information from the perceptual contents in the common representation space are admitted to the global workspace when warranted by a task.”
RETHINKING THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN (2012, neutral): “…representation of experience in a cognitive workspace involving neocortical areas, especially prefrontal and parietal cortical areas (Crick and Koch, 1990, 2004, Dehaene and Changeux, 2004, Baars, 2005; Frith and Dolan, 1996; Frith et al., 1999; Frith, 2008; Shallice, 1988; Shallice et al., 2008).”
Decoupling of the brain's default mode network during deep sleep (2009, background): “Nevertheless, taken together, our findings also support the notion that waking, conscious awareness is an emergent consequence of coordinated activity in multiple brain regions (37), that it may require coherence between frontal and posterior brain regions (38), and that local cortical activity may ”
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs (2014, background): “…strictly, “winnerless” (Rabinovich et al., 2001) competition between states [“winnerless” because critical instability or metastability dictates that a state’s “vic-tory” is transient (Friston et al., 2012b)] the global system only ever entertains one winning state at any one time (Baars, 2005).”
Cosmopsychism: A Holistic Approach to the Metaphysics of Experience (2015, background): “The idea that the unity of consciousness is predicated on mechanisms of integration between differentiated states and processes is commonplace in neuroscience-based consciousness research (see Baars 2005, Crick and Koch 1990, Dehaene and Naccache 2001, Edelman and Tononi 2000).”
Transforming task representations to perform novel tasks (2020, background): “Relatedly, our shared workspace for data points, tasks, and metamappings connects to ideas like the global workspace theory of consciousness (46).”
Network attributes for segregation and integration in the human brain. (2013, background): “Rich club connectivity offers a potential network substrate for a ‘global neuronal workspace’, a key component of recent theories of higher cognition and consciousness [66,67].”
40 years of cognitive architectures: core cognitive abilities and practical applications (2018, background): “Other architectures influenced by the GWT include ARCADIA (Bridewell and Bello 2015) and CERA-CRANIUM (Arrabales et al. 2009b).”
Hierarchical consciousness: the Nested Observer Windows model (2024, methodology): “…one well regarded theory suggests that independent streams of information processing are integrated in a “global workspace” of consciousness (Baars 2005), whereas another theory argues this common “theater” of experience is an illusion and there are many coexisting narratives for the…”