Professor Tim Bayne

Tim Bayne, Professor at Monash University and Co-Director of the ‘Brain, Mind and Consciousness’ program of theĀ Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

A philosopher, Tim works with scientists to address the question of how we might test for consciousness in various challenging populations, such as humans who are not capable of verbal report (e.g. infants), non-human animals, and artificial systems of various kinds.

Why does consciousness research matter?

An understanding of consciousness, and the mechanisms that create our experience of the world and our place within it, is more important than ever before. Significant to our everyday lives, consciousness research has far reaching implications for: