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The
Scientific
Study
of
Consciousness

Experimental & Theoretical Approaches

Animal models

  • Umberto Olcese

  • Kristin Andrews

    Eva Jablonka

    Simona Ginsburg

    Melanie Wilke

    Fanis Panagiotaropoulos

    Yuri Saalman

    Shawn Olsen

    Mototaka Suzuki

    Umberto Olcese

    Andreas Nieder

    David Edelman

Progress and problems

  • Jaan Aru

  • Francis Fallon

    Ned Block

    Antti Revonsuo

    Jakob Hohwy

    Alex Gomez-Marin

    Christof Koch

    Liad Mudrik

Mathematical approaches

  • Johannes Kleiner

  • Johannes Kleiner

    Lenore

    Manuel Blum

    Larissa Albantakis

    Nao Tsuchiya

Theories and prediction testing

  • Lucia Melloni

  • Victor Lamme

    Lionel Naccache

    Steve Fleming

    Cyriel Pennartz

    Wolf Singer

    Giulio Tononi

    Sascha Fink

    Lucia Melloni

AI, organoids, plants and ethics

  • Guillaume Dumas

  • Eric Elmoznino

    Guillaume Lajoie

    Jonathan Simon

    Andrea Lavazza

    Guillaume Dumas

    Chauncey Maher

Human consciousness

  • Athena Demertzi & Thomas Andrillon

  • Hugo Lagercrantz

    Alison Gopnik

    Catherin Tallon-Baudry

    Marie Loescher

    Anthony Clément

    Biyu He

    John Dylan Haynes

    Anil Seth

    Marcello Massimini

    Catherine Duclos

    Athena Demertzi

    Thomas Andrillon

    Jacobo Sitt

    Francesca Siclari

    George Mashour

    Tony Hudetz

    Zirui Huang

    Enzo Tagliazucchi

    Antoine Lutz

Future directions

  • Lucia Melloni & Umberto Olcese

  • Jaan Aru

    Lucia Melloni

    Umberto Olcese

1

Progress and problems in the study of consiousness

  • Francis Fallon

  • Ned Block

  • Antti Revonsuo

    Toward a Metaphysics of Consciousness: Science and the Fundamental Nature of Subjective Experience

  • Jakob Hohwy

  • Alex Gomez-Marin

    At the edges of consciousness: towards a science of experience from within

  • Christof Koch

  • Liad Mudrik

2

Theoretical frameworks and their testable predictions

  • Victor Lamme

    Why the Recurrent Processing Theory of Consciousness is not a theory

  • Lionel Naccache

3

Experimental approaches in human participants

  • Hugo Lagercrantz

    The emergence of human consciousness or alternatively: What is it like to be a human fetus and newborn infant?

  • Alison Gopnik

  • Catherin Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher, Anthony Clément

  • Biyu He

  • John Dylan Haynes

  • Anil Seth

  • Marcello Massimini, Catherine Duclos

  • Athena Demertzi

  • Thomas Andrillon, Jacobo Sitt

  • Francesca Siclari

  • George Mashour, Tony Hudetz, Zirui Huang

  • Enzo Tagliazucchi

  • Antoine Lutz

4

Experimental approaches in animal models

  • Kristin Andrews

    Determining the distribution of consciousness

  • Eva Joblanka & Simona Ginsburg

    The evolution of learning and the origins of consciousness

  • Melanie Wilke

    Progress and Problems of studying conscious perception in animals

  • Fanis Panagiotaropoulos

    Cortical correlates of consciousness in the non human primate brain

  • Yuri Saalman

  • Shawn Olsen

  • Mototaka Suzuki

  • Umberto Olcese

  • Andreas Nieder

    A Bird's Eye View on Consciousness

  • David Edelman

    Distance Vision and the Rise of Consciousness: Insights from the Octopus and other Cephalopods

5

Mathematical approaches

  • Johannes Kleiner

  • Lenore Blum & Manuel Blum

    A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

  • Larissa Albantakis

    How toy model systems can inform theories of consciousness

  • Nao Tsuchiya

6

Extrapolation to other systems

  • Eric Elmoznino, Guillaume Lajoie, & Jonathan Simon

    Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

  • Andrea Lavazza

    Perspectives on Consciousness in Human Brain Organoids

  • Guillaume Dumas

  • Chauncey Maher

    Might Plants Be Conscious?

7

Conclusions and forward outlook

  • Jaan Aru

  • TBD

  • Lucia Melloni & Umberto Olcese

  • Lucia Melloni & Umberto Olcese

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