The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 236-246

  Baars, Bernard J ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evidence; Conscious limits; Naturalists; Scientific studies; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349093580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751466.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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