Scholarpedia:Invitereviewer/Consciousness

Dear %NAME%,

Would your schedule allow you to peer-review a short entry "%TITLE%" by %AUTHORS% for the Consciousness chapter of Scholarpedia? This mini-review article is at %URLtitle%.

To agree, please, click the following link %URL%

If you are not able to review this article, please follow the link %URLdecline% to decline this assignment. We would appreciate it greatly if you could recommend other reviewers who have expertise in this topic (using the form in the link above).

You will have %DAYSFORREVIEW% days for review.

Your username is '%USERNAME%'. %PASSWORDPHRASE%

I do appreciate the many demands on your time, but I'd like to emphasize that the review process in Scholarpedia is different from that of other peer-reviewed journals: It is more effective and you may actually find it interesting. In particular, you are able to modify the article directly and your review will be stored in the public archive and available to the community even 50 years from now.

Scholarpedia, being a synthesis of the philosophies of Encyclopedia Britannica and openness of Wikipedia, is ambitious and unique. Many articles in Scholarpedia are written by the the original authors and inventors. For example, Lotfi Zadeh, the inventor of fuzzy logic, wrote "Fuzzy logic"; Herman Haken, the creator of synergetics, wrote "Synergetics" and "Self-organization"; Seiji Ogawa, the inventor of fMRI, wrote "fMRI", and so on. Gerald Edelman is writing "Neural Darwinism", Daniel Dennett has written "Multiple Drafts", Thomas Metzinger has written "Self Models", Giulio Tononi is writing "Information integration", Christof Koch has written "Neural correlates", David Rosenthal is writing "Higher-order thought", Bernard Baars is writing "Global workspace", V.S. Ramachandran has written "Synesthesia", Larry Weiskrantz has written "Blindsight", among many others.

You can read more about the project at http://www.scholarpedia.org, and for more information about `consciousness' in Scholarpedia, see http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Category:Consciousness.

Many thanks for your consideration. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

Sincerely, Anil K Seth Editor, Consciousness, Scholarpedia