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Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: EP108 Bernard Baars on Consciousness
Description: Bernard Baars talks to Jim about some of the key ideas in his book, On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity...
Bernard Baars talks to Jim about some of the key ideas in his book, On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity. They start by covering some of the history of the scientific study of consciousness & its taboo reputation in science, the philosopher's zombie, and the limits of philosophy to study consciousness. They then go into some of the specifics of Bernards global workspace theory (GWT): limited capacity, conscious content & perceived objects, the aspects of the theater metaphor, dynamics of attention, animal consciousness, global access, contrastive analy...