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Welcome!

 

 

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Starting September 24, 2007:

 

 

For anyone interested in contemporary understanding of consciousness:

 

Consciousness: The Webcourse ---

 

Sponsored by the University of Arizona, Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson, Arizona.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To download the Syllabus, click here:

 

Consciousness_syllabus2007.pdf

 

The course will be presented over the web, with weekly Lectures, audio files, Web Discussions, and Phenomenology Labs for experiential exploration. It will focus on evidence and theory about our conscious experience, embracing all three classical approaches:  Personal, Intersubjective, and Scientific.

 

To register, go to www.consciousness.arizona.edu.

 

Any questions? Please contact:  center@consciousness.arizona.edu

 

Additional textbook copies can be ordered via Oxford University Press. (B.J. Baars, 1997, In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind.) Oxford page is here.  

 

 

 

 

Discussion Groups

 

(For registered participants, you are welcome to download Readings .)

 

 

 

 

 


 

Newly published:

 

Baars & Gage (Eds) Cognition, Brain & Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience.

 

From Elsevier, Inc./Academic Press.

 

 Textbook Links:

 

 

 

 
   

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 For visitors interested in current research and teaching projects:

 

Baars et al publications (pdf downloads)

Demonstrations, brain images and experiments

Discussions, debates and new findings...

If you want to join a Conscious*Brain Web Seminar or WebCourse, please email me

 

 

 


Soon we will have a downloadable copy of my 1988 book, A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness (published by Cambridge University Press, but soon to be in the Google book domain). This book is widely cited as the source of Global Workspace Theory, a framework for scientific evidence about human consciousness. It is still the most complete statement of the theory.

 

 

 

 


 

 

A popular account is given in: In the Theater of Consciousness, the Workspace of the Mind

                                                        (Oxford, 1997)

 

    • And in downloadable articles (See SideBar >>>).

 

 

Textbook for the WebCourse.

 

I hope to use this wiki site for discussions, seminars, web links, and references.

 

Blog updates ...

 

Emerging questions, and maybe a few answers...

 

Working papers on Global Workspace Theory (GWT), and discussion of other efforts to try to understand one of the most intriguing mysteries in the biosphere ...

 

 

  • The brain basis of consciousness is now a lively frontier question. (See SCIENCE magazine, 2005)

 

  • GWT suggests some ideas for that search. Professors Stan Dehaene and Murray Shanahan, and their coworkers, have pursued varieties of "neuronal global workspace theory".  Jim Newman, before his tragic death, made important contributions. A number of others have provided ideas, questions, and challenges.

 

  • Parallel efforts are coming from a number of researchers. I will try to keep a list of links and references here.

 

  • Opportunities for you to participate ...

 

 

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