Global Workspace Consciousness Simulator

Consciousness studies grapple with the "hard problem" — why physical brain activity is accompanied by subjective experience at all. While that question stays open, neuroscience has produced measurable theories about the physical conditions under which information becomes consciously accessible. This simulator renders a small network of neural modules as glowing nodes in 3D space. Local activation spreads along the network's connections and decays over time; most of it stays isolated. But when enough modules synchronize past an ignition threshold, the theory-inspired integration index Φ spikes and the entire network broadcasts in a single global flash — a geometric stand-in for Global Workspace Theory's account of conscious access and Integrated Information Theory's claim that consciousness tracks integrated, not merely local, information. Tune connectivity, ignition threshold and stimulus rate to explore when a network stays fragmented and when it ignites.