At the very least, neuroscience has not been able to identify any brain area as the neural correlate of consciousness – that is, as the area which is always active whenever consciousness takes place. There are various hypotheses which try to explain the problem away by identifying consciousness with a different kind of structure realized by the brain – that is, not with one specific area. For instance, the global workspace model propounded by the neuroscientists Bernard Baars, Stanislas Dehaene and Jean-Pierre Changeux is roughly the idea that consciousness is more a firing-pattern which
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