Higher-Order-Thought Theory of Consciousness

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

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 [...]

The Medium Problem of consciousness

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 [...]

Attention and consciousness

In Alfredo Pereira’s BPCC forum on nature.com I just posted something about Christof Koch’s views on this matter. Hopefully there will be a good discussion. Christof is a nice and friendly person and an outstanding researcher in the field of neuroscience and consciousness, but this time I think he is on the wrong track.