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Welcome! This is an experiment, a shared notepad on mathematical topics in the scientific study of consciousness.

Much like our idol, the nLab, the idea is that this wiki offers a space for us to share notes, thoughts, definitions and ideas. It is dedicated primarily to formal/mathematical topics in the scientific study of consciousness, but topics from philosophy, neuroscience and other disciplines are very welcome as well.

For the time being, this wiki is private, so that only registered users known personally to some of the existing users can read and edit. We would like to make it as easy as possible for registered users to contribute, and explicitly encourage posting of preliminary thoughts and partial summaries. If the experiment works, even preliminary pages will improve over time when several different people contribute.

On the long run, if the quality of the content is good enough, we could think about making parts of the wiki accessible to the public. But before any such step is taken we'd be talking to all users and make sure they can delete content they do not want to be publicly accessible.

Goals

This wiki's overall goal is to catalyse exchange between researchers who are working on mathematical approaches in the scientific study of consciousness, and to help make good science possible. The hope is that it can be both a resource for information concerning formal approaches, but also a place where ideas can be exchanged. It's basically just a big community notebook.

Here are a few examples of the kind of posts that are very welcome:

  • Posts on concepts that are used in the scientific study of consciousness, which summarize parts of the literature, collect various conceptions or say something on how this could best be formalized.
  • Posts which review the essential formal structure of existing theories of consciousness.
  • Posts which outline research projects that are being carried out.

On the long run, among other things, we hope this helps to establish a more unique convention on how to name things in mathematical research that is related to the scientific study of consciousness.

Existing entries

Here is an automated list of existing entries in this wiki. You can also check the Special:RecentChanges page to see recent modifications. And you can click on the tiny star right next to the "edit" button to watch a page, i.e. to get notifications in case it is being changed. To create a new page, simply type the name into the search bar above and click on the name to create the page.

Users

While the wiki is private, let's have a list of users. Please add yourself. You can add a brief description of yourself on your user page, in case you like.

Johannes Kleiner, Joanna Szczotka, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla, Jonathan Mason

Issues

A place to collect technical issues with the wiki that need to be resolved. Please add any issue below.

  • Does anyone experience cases where "session data is lost" or where they are being logged out spontaneously?