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Templeton World Charity Foundation
Also known as: TWCF, Templeton Foundation, Templeton World Charities
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Global Workspace vs. Integrated Information: Testing… templetonworldcharity.org 4 facts
claimThe Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) funds five research projects, titled Structured Adversarial Collaborations, which enable researchers to evaluate competing hypotheses regarding consciousness through designed experiments and cross-laboratory validation.
claimThe Templeton World Charity Foundation is funding a research project titled 'Structured Adversarial Collaborations' to systematically evaluate competing hypotheses about consciousness through cross-laboratory validation.
claimThe Accelerating Research platform, developed by Dawid Potgieter and DataCite with funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, showcases results from Structured Adversarial Collaboration projects as they progress.
quoteDr. Yuri Saalmann, the project lead and Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, stated: 'The goal of this project, and the whole Templeton collaboration, is to improve theories of consciousness. And, there are a number of reasons why this is vital. One is that it allows us to get a better understanding of consciousness, which can be useful for driving new experiments and discoveries; but also, so we can better understand consciousness disorders like coma, where right now there are very limited clinical options.'
What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved quantamagazine.org Aug 24, 2023 3 facts
claimThe March 2018 workshop at the Allen Institute included theorists Stanislas Dehaene, Giulio Tononi, and Hakwan Lau (who champions Higher-Order Theories), as well as David Chalmers, and representatives from the Templeton Foundation.
claimThe Templeton World Charity Foundation initiated a series of 'adversarial collaborations' five years prior to 2023 to help winnow down the number of competing theories of consciousness.
accountDawid Potgieter, head of the special programs section of the Templeton World Charity Foundation, initiated a head-to-head contest of consciousness theories five years ago to address the abundance of viable, competing theories.
Workspace vs integration: results starting to come in selfawarepatterns.com Jun 26, 2023 2 facts
claimThe Templeton Foundation funded an adversarial collaboration to test neurobiological theories of consciousness, specifically pitting Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) against Integrated Information Theory (IIT).
claimStanislas Dehaene and the research team plan to present a subsequent Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF)-funded experiment, which uses a design preferred by Dehaene, at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) meeting next year.
Testing Global Neuronal Workspace and Integrated… templetonworldcharity.org 2 facts
measurementThe Templeton World Charity Foundation awarded $3,499,941 to the project 'Testing Global Neuronal Workspace and Integrated Information Theories of Consciousness in Animal Models'.
claimThe research project "Testing Global Neuronal Workspace and Integrated Information Theories of Consciousness in Animal Models" is assigned the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) project number 0590.
Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 2 facts
measurementThe research presented in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science article on Social Epistemology was supported by the Templeton Foundation (grant 62631) and the Australian Research Council (grant DP230101081).
measurementThe research work for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science article was supported by the Templeton Foundation (grant 62631) and the Australian Research Council (grant DP230101081).
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... - Nature nature.com Apr 30, 2025 2 facts
accountThe Templeton World Charity Foundation organized a 2-day meeting at the Allen Institute in Seattle in March 2018 to discuss neurobiological theories of consciousness, involving H. Berlin, W. Jaworski, H. Lau, and C. Pennartz.
claimThe research study on neurobiological theories of consciousness was supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation (grants TWCF0389 and TWCF0486) and the Max Planck Society.
GWT: A Leading Consciousness Theory Depends on Information ... mindmatters.ai Oct 15, 2021 1 fact
claimTempleton World Charities organized a contest between Global Workspace Theory and Integrated Information Theory in 2019, though the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the event.
Protocol for testing global neuronal workspace and integrated ... journals.plos.org 1 fact
measurementThe research project 'Protocol for testing global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness in non-human primates and mice' is funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF0590) under its Accelerating Research on Consciousness (ARC) initiative.