Global Workspace Theory on Consciousness Live!

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Claire Sergent

Season 4, Episode 16 · Jul 2021 · 1:57:05
31 mentions
  • 17:36 “…eventually you may have to face that possibility um but do you think of the global workspace as like a psychologically real thing which you know involves things like working memory some…”
  • 10:27 “…openness and thank you for sharing but um i want to ask you all about the global workspace theory because as far as i understand your work you take yourself to be defending that view…”

Bernard Baars

Season 4, Episode 4 · Mar 2021 · 2:03:05
23 mentions
  • 1:55:47 “…crowdsourcing or swarm computing or whatever we call it these days including the global workspace concept and of course the global workspace phrase came from his research group at cmu very…”
  • 54:14 “…interesting so you so is your idea i mean because the question was about global workspace theory yes let me backtrack actually global workspace theory is a scaffolding just as freud…”

Peter Carruthers

Season 4, Episode 10 · Apr 2021 · 1:51:55
21 mentions
  • 1:15:06 “a global workspace sort of very like ours like in in in one case like if we uploaded your brain to a computer…”
  • 1:05 “…converted from being a higher order theorist about consciousness to the global workspace theorist although there's been you know there's quite a lot of continuities between those…”

Liad Mudrik, Lucia Melloni, and Michael Pitts

Season 4, Episode 17 · Jul 2021 · 2:00:50
14 mentions
  • 41:28 “…stopped me before so i have a 100 well no i don't i'm not sure because the global workspace theory like what you're saying is um it's not clear to me that what you guys are saying right…”
  • 31:01 “…w you know they might still hold on to the idea of global network and global workspace and so on and so forth but they would say but you know what here there there is a result that…”

Consciousness Live! 100th Episode Spectacular Extravaganza -Session II

May 2026 · 2:57:55
13 mentions
  • 26:42 “…of when you hire order represent? And if you're a global, you could say global workspace, what you're aware of is the stuff that's global to be broadcast and therefore the first order…”
  • 15:56 “…theories even if it capture the those uh views I'm thinking here like the global workspace I lo local recurrence and attention theor a very interesting claim regarding ing whether those…”

Adrien Doerig

Season 4, Episode 13 · May 2021 · 1:44:00
11 mentions
  • 1:11:45 “…problem to me. Okay. Right. And you can always tell Stan Dehaene that the global workspace cannot work because there could be in another world, you know, a global workspace with no…”
  • 9:22 “…ex- for example, you know, the difference between a theory like IIT and global workspace, that there's metaphysical differences uh”

Consciousness Live! 100th Episode Spectacular Extravaganza -Session 3

May 2026 · 1:59:20
8 mentions
  • 59:07 “…example, right? Whenever you have a conscious state, it precipitates into the global workspace and then becomes reportable. And then you could come up with an empirical uh finding of perfect…”
  • 53:00 “…it's capable of an unlimited associated associative learning or it has a global workspace or you know, it integrates information in a certain way or whatever your alternative theory…”

Javier Gomez-Lavin

Season 1, Episode 8 · Aug 2018 · 1:42:10
7 mentions
  • 38:00 “…minimalistic neuronal or cognitive theories so people like the Han and global workspace people”
  • 47:27 “global workspace including this non-centrality desiderata and on locality desiderata and but it still would…”

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