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How conscious are you? - C C - Jan 1, 2016
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/how-conscious-are-you/
EXCERPT: [...] Using these techniques, Prof. Dehaene and colleagues found that when a participant becomes able to report, say, seeing a word, they can suddenly do a wide range of new things with the information, including naming and remembering it. This seems to be because information is suddenly shared throughout the brain. When a participant becomes consciously aware of something, the initial neural response is amplified many-fold, and suddenly spreads, as synchronised activity, through a wide network of regions, including many parts of the cortex. Prof. Dehaene calls this the Global Neuronal Workspace....
RE: How conscious are you? - Magical Realist - Jan 1, 2016
Consciousness then as essentially "shared information", not only between different brain areas, but between different brains. If we have the same information, we have access to the same facts, propositions, theories, and sensory details. We share in a common matrix of informability we construct as "reality". Shared information or consciousness then as inherently transcendental. It goes beyond itself into a situation of synchronized subjectivity, generating the possibility of commonality.