Baars draws evidence from experiments on language mistakes and corrections for this point. The global workspace consists of a host of specialized modules being informed by the module broadcasting currently. Consciousness also relates to the idea of the self. We see, in conclusion, that what had seemed to be a unified and coherent consciousness turns out to be many different mechanisms with distinct functions and modes of operation, having in common an access to the limited-capacity final common path of the global workspace and its memory mechanisms. Psychology has often found that seemingly unified systems turn out to fragment into many components on closer examination.
Examples are in memory, in perception, and now in consciousness itself.
Baars' book promises to be a milestone in creating a theoretical framework for future consciousness research. It will also be a benchmark against which future theories are tested. Charles Scribner's Sons. The where and when of consciousness in the brain. In Symposium on the Mechanization of Thought Processes.