Global workspace dynamics: cortical "binding and propagation" enables conscious contents.
Frontiers in Psychology 2013 Bernard J. Baars, Stan Franklin, Thomas Zoega Ramsoy
A global workspace (GW) is a functional hub of binding and propagation in a population of loosely coupled signaling elements. In computational applications, GW architectures recruit many distributed, specialized agents to cooperate in resolving focal ambiguities. In the brain, conscious experiences may reflect a GW function. For animals, the natural world is full of unpredictable dangers and...