Abstract
Six keynote papers presented at TSC 2009 — by Susan Greenfield,
Wolf Singer, Stuart Hameroff, Jonathan Schooler, Hakwan Lau, and
David Chalmers—are reviewed below in order to investigate to what
extent social analysis can be usefully applied in different areas of consciousness
studies. The six papers did not ostensibly address social
aspects of consciousness; nevertheless I hope to show that it is often
beneficial to consider the possible social implications in any consciousness-
related work.