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A clear-eyed, open-minded analysis of the problems of consciousness, and a wide-ranging synthesis of a variety of approaches. For those who want to join the race to model consciousness, this is the starting line.” —Daniel C. Dennett, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University

"Baars was just waaaay ahead of everyone else in approaching questions concerning consciousness as scientific questions. This corpus is a stunning achievement." —Patricia Churchland, PhD, UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita, UCSD

“Quite simply, Bernard Baars has made the most important single contribution to consciousness studies since William James.” —Bruce Mangan, PhD, Institute of Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley

Bernard J. Baars is an Affiliated Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, founded by Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman.  He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a theory of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. He previously served as a professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip; and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. Baars is currently Editor in Chief of the Society for Mind Brain Sciences; co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the Academic Press journal Consciousness and Cognition. He is the Recipient of the International Neural Network Society 2019 Hermann von Helmholtz Award recognizing scientific life contributions proven to be paradigm changing which demonstrate outstanding research achievements in perception. 

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