Part I. The Science of Consciousness: History, Methods, and Characteristics: 1. Introduction; 1.1. A historical perspective on consciousness; 1.2. Philosophical perspectives on consciousness; 1.3.
What this book has to offer; 1.4. How to read this book; 2. Experimental approaches to consciousness: 2.1 Experimental approaches to states of consciousness; 2.2 Experimental approaches to contents of consciousness; 2.3 Problems, pitfalls, and methodological considerations; 3. Characteristics of consciousness: 3.
1 Where in the brain?: The neural correlates of consciousness (NCC); 3.2 When do contents 'reach' consciousness?: The temporal aspects of consciousness; 3.3 Access versus phenomenal consciousness: is there 'overflow'?; 3.4 Is consciousness discrete or graded?; 3.5 Is consciousness unified?; 3.6 Attention and neglect; 3.7 Phylogenetic and ontogenetic emergence of consciousness: Evolution, animals, mirrors, and babies; 3.8 The role of consciousness; 3.
9 The quest for generalisability; Part II. Portrayals and Evaluations of Empirical ToCs: 4. What is a theory of consciousness?: 4.1. The self-organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) Axel Cleeremans; 4.2. Challenge I: the non-conscious alternative; 5. Process theories: 5.
1. Predictive processing theory and consciousness (PPT) Anil Seth; 5.2. The global neuronal workspace theory of consciousness (GNWT) Claire Sergent and Daphné Rimsky-Robert; 5.3. Higher order theories (HOTs) and the perceptual reality monitoring theory (PRM) Matthias Michel; 5.4. Challenge II: underconstraining consciousness: the small network argument; 6.
Causal structure theories: 6.1. Recurrent processing theory (RPT) Victor A. F. Lamme; 6.2. Integrated information theory (IIT) William Marshall; 6.3 Challenge III: the unfolding argument; 7.
Biological theories: 7.1. Dendritic integration theory (DIT) Jaan Aru, Talis Bachmann, Mototaka Suzuki and Matthew E. Larkum; 7.2. The 'felt uncertainty' theory of consciousness (FUT) Mark Solms; 7.3. Challenge IV: the other systems argument; 8.
Quantum theories: 8.1. The orchestrated objective reduction theory of consciousness (Orch-OR) Stuart Hameroff; 8.2. Challenges for quantum theories of consciousness; 9. Illusionism: 9.1. The attention schema theory (AST) Michael S.
A. Graziano; 9.2. The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness (SMT) J. Kevin O'Regan; 9.3. Challenges for illusionist theories; Part III. The Science of Consciousness: 10.
The science of consciousness: an opinionated perspective: 10.1 Scientific theories of consciousness; 10.2 At the core of current ToCs; 10.3 How to escape the core problems of today's ToCs?; 10.4 Summary; Appendix; References.