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...constantly being delivered to them. Instead, our working memory and spotlight of attention receive executive summaries of the events and states that are most relevant to updating an understanding of the world and figuring out what to do next. The cognitive psychologist Bernard Baars likens consciousness to a global blackboard on which brain processes post their results and monitor the results of the others...
...screen of consciousness. What it means, according to a theory by Crick and his collaborator Christof Koch, is that consciousness resides only in the "higher" parts of the brain that are connected to circuits for emotion and decision making, just what one would expect from the blackboard metaphor...
...feel the room spinning, but it isn't." This kind of discussion about what we know and how we know it is typical of a theory of knowledge class, a required element for an international-baccalaureate diploma. Stroud has posed this question to his class on the blackboard: "If truth is difficult to prove in history, does it follow that all versions are equally acceptable...
...their chairs, not wanting to miss a word of their lecture on Cauchy sequences. As if apprentices in the presence of a brilliant impressionist painter, they focus their attention on Gaitsgory’s canvas, their eyes darting to follow the flurry of bold, erratic strokes across the blackboard. Each nod marks a step closer to comprehension, but as the lecture progresses, brows begin to furrow...
...wanted a confirmation that I was comfortable with the material and understood all that I had written down. He had me reproduce all the answers to the quiz in front of him on the blackboard in his corner office in the Science Center...