Archive for September, 2009

Higher-Order-Thought Theory of Consciousness

September 15, 2009

Since yesterday we are discussing this. The topic is well known for David Rosenthal
We are discussing two of his papers that are not available publicly, but he has a lot of papers and presentations on his website so anyone who wants to dive into this…
I met David in Berlin at the annual meeting of our [...]

Week three of an online workshop on theories of consciousness

September 11, 2009

A few days ago we started discussing the Global Workspace Theory by Bernard Baars.
From my opening statement: “I am most happy that we enter the stage of individual presentations today. Bernard Baars will be the one to start this with arguably the most influential theory to date.”
Bernard did a very interesting opening statement and we [...]

Kokin Gumi

September 11, 2009

The Medium Problem of consciousness

September 1, 2009

In the online workshop about theories of of consciousness we are currently discussing a paper by Sid Kouider about Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness
In my response I have addressed the explanatory gap and that Sid links it to the famous Hard Problem of consciousness. Now I feel there may be a different kind of problem, that [...]