As background, you might want to first read Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis (it's OK, I hadn't seen it either). This is a great article with an even better diagram articulating how (conscious) experience in a 'neuronal workspace' may be connected to and informed by (unconscious) more specialized 'workspaces'. It makes me think of 'communities of communities'. "Baars's global workspace involves processors related to the past (memory), present (sensory input, attention), and future (value systems, motor plans, verbal report). Thus, the global workspace achieves experiential integration that is, in terms drawn from the philosophy of mind, both synchronic (at a particular point) and diachronic (over time)." Now that we're caught up, Eric Schwitzgebel throws a spanner into the works - what if there is no global unified workspace? "On this model, disunity is the normal human condition. Our experiences are fragmented, except when we pull them together through attention. We just don't realize that fact."
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