The Importance of Consciousness

There are various ways that people think about how the binding problem gets solved. One is called global workspace theory, which says things come together in what Bernard Bars calls the global workspace. In this view, consciousness emerges from the integration of all these diverse sensory and cognitive bits into a single unified representation,. Let's say, of the blue bird. So if we can come up with the right sort of network structure that's needed to give rise to consciousness, we're on our way to understanding whether consciousness could escape its biological origins.