Neuroscience's approach: NCCs and Global Workspace Theory

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Crick/Koch, Dehaene, Baars: the mainstream neuroscience program of finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness, and Global Workspace Theory — consciousness as information broadcast to a workspace accessible by many cognitive modules.

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Explain what an NCC is and why finding one is easier than solving the hard problem.Describe Global Workspace Theory and what it predicts.State what the adversarial collaboration tested and what the results were — including what wasn't resolved.Explain why many working neuroscientists prefer GWT to IIT on methodological grounds.

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○Consciousness and the Brain— Stanislas Dehaeneanchor · book
○The Feeling of Life Itself— Christof Kochcompanion · book
○IIT–GWT adversarial collaboration results plus one commentarycompanion · paper

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