{"id":107618,"date":"2020-05-25T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/applying-physics-to-understanding-the-mystery-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2020-05-25T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:23:29","slug":"applying-physics-to-understanding-the-mystery-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/applying-physics-to-understanding-the-mystery-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Applying physics to understanding the mystery of consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/applying-physics-to-understanding-the-mystery-of-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn international study involving Monash physicists has cornered a new approach to measure consciousness, potentially changing our understanding of complex neurological problems.<\/p>\n<p>The study published today in Physical Review Research describes how tools from physics and complexity theory were used to determine the level of consciousness in fruit flies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major problem in neuroscience, where it is crucial to differentiate between unresponsive vegetative patients and those suffering from a condition in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally because of complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body,\u201d said study author Dr. Kavan Modi, from the Monash University School of Physics and Astronomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An international study involving Monash physicists has conrmed a new approach to measure consciousness, potentially changing our understanding complex neurological problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOI:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevResearch.2.023219\" target=\"_blank\">10.1103\/PhysRevResearch.2.023219<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Organisation\/s:<\/strong> Monash University.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/applying-physics-to-understanding-the-mystery-of-consciousness\">Continue reading \u201cApplying physics to understanding the mystery of consciousness\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAn international study involving Monash physicists has cornered a new approach to measure consciousness, potentially changing our understanding of complex neurological problems. The study published today in Physical Review Research describes how tools from physics and complexity theory were used to determine the level of consciousness in fruit flies. \u201cThis is a major problem in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}