This book is not an intellectual history or popular summary of recent work on
consciousness in humans. Bernard Baars (1988), Edelman and Tononi (2000),
and many others, have written such, and done it well indeed. This book, rather,
brings the powerful analytic machinery of communication theory to bear on
the Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) model of consciousness which Baars
introduced, and does so in a formal mathematical manner.