# Contested concept: global workspace (gwt interpretation)

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: Defenders and critics may talk past each other, since the same label covers a theory that leaves the hard problem and one that eliminates it.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/global workspace (gwt interpretation)` (data: `/concept/global workspace (gwt interpretation).json`)

## Senses in use
- **A distinct stage or arena where entry makes unconscious items conscious, so the hard problem remains** — used in 2 claim(s)
- **A distributed competitive process with no sharp conscious/unconscious division, so the hard problem dissolves** — used in 2 claim(s)
- **A functional hub of broadcast and integration, a functionalist theory** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [In the first version [of GWT], something magical happens to turn unconscious items into conscious ones.](/claim/claim_063b5635fcf9.md) _(sense: A distinct stage or arena where entry makes unconscious items conscious, so the hard problem remains)_
- [In the first version [of GWT], the hard problem [of consciousness] remains.](/claim/claim_20f2efce0a0a.md) _(sense: A distinct stage or arena where entry makes unconscious items conscious, so the hard problem remains)_
- [Because the global workspace is a functional hub of broadcast and integration that allows information to be disseminated across modules, gl…](/claim/claim_7a8a9bb4d4e0.md) _(sense: A functional hub of broadcast and integration, a functionalist theory)_
- [The global workspace [in global workspace theory] is a functional hub of broadcast and integration that allows information to be disseminat…](/claim/claim_9ebfda355aea.md) _(sense: A functional hub of broadcast and integration, a functionalist theory)_
- [In the second version [of GWT], we have to give up the idea that some items are conscious and others not.](/claim/claim_d224175e6b38.md) _(sense: A distributed competitive process with no sharp conscious/unconscious division, so the hard problem dissolves)_
- [In the second version [of GWT], the hard problem [of consciousness] disappears.](/claim/claim_d6e49a3a6349.md) _(sense: A distributed competitive process with no sharp conscious/unconscious division, so the hard problem dissolves)_