?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Neuronal+mechanisms+of+consciousness%3A+A+Relational+Global+Workspace+framework.&rft.creator=Baars%2C+Bernard&rft.creator=Newman%2C+James&rft.creator=Taylor%2C+John&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=++++This+paper+explores+a+remarkable+convergence+of+ideas+and+evidence%2C+previously+presented+in+%0Aseparate+places+by+its+authors.+That+convergence+has+now+become+so+persuasive+that+we+believe+we+%0Aare+working+within+substantially+the+same+broad+framework.+Taylor%C2%92s+mathematical+papers+on+%0Aneuronal+systems+involved+in+consciousness+dovetail+well+with+work+by+Newman+and+Baars+on+the+%0Athalamocortical+system%2C+suggesting+a+brain+mechanism+much+like+the+global+workspace+architecture+%0Adeveloped+by+Baars+(see+references+below).+This+architecture+is+relational%2C+in+the+sense+that+it+%0Acontinuously+mediates+the+interaction+of+input+with+memory.+While+our+approaches+overlap+in+a+%0Anumber+of+ways%2C+each+of+us+tends+to+focus+on+different+areas+of+detail.+What+is+most+striking%2C+and+%0Awe+believe+significant%2C+is+the+extent+of+consensus%2C+which+we+believe+to+be+consistent+with+other+%0Acontemporary+approaches+by+Weiskrantz%2C+Gray%2C+Crick+and+Koch%2C+Edelman%2C+Gazzaniga%2C+Newell+and+%0Acolleagues%2C+Posner%2C+Baddeley%2C+and+a+number+of+others.+We+suggest+that+cognitive+neuroscience+is+%0Amoving+toward+a+shared+understanding+of+consciousness+in+the+brain.&rft.publisher=MIT+Press&rft.contributor=Hameroff%2C+Stuart&rft.contributor=Kaszniak%2C+Al&rft.contributor=Laukes%2C+James&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F946%2F1%2FBaars%252C_Newman_and_Taylor_Tucson_9x_html.htm&rft.identifier=++Baars%2C+Bernard+and+Newman%2C+James+and+Taylor%2C+John++(1998)+Neuronal+mechanisms+of+consciousness%3A+A+Relational+Global+Workspace+framework.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F946%2F