Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009

Baroness Susan Greenfield

Susan Greenfield
Professor, Pharmacology Department, Oxford;
Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain;
Chancellor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Susan Greenfield is a research neuroscientist at Oxford University, writer, broadcaster and member of the British House of Lords. She has characterized consciousness as continuously variable: the degree of consciousness at any one time will, she argues, be determined by the extent of large scale, sub-second transient coalitions of neurons (‘assemblies’).