{"id":114783,"date":"2020-10-20T19:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-research-claims-that-consciousness-itself-is-an-energy-field"},"modified":"2020-10-20T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:28:53","slug":"new-research-claims-that-consciousness-itself-is-an-energy-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-research-claims-that-consciousness-itself-is-an-energy-field","title":{"rendered":"New Research Claims That Consciousness Itself Is an Energy Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-claims-that-consciousness-itself-is-an-energy-field.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Dualism Reborn<\/b><\/p>\n<p>McFadden\u2019s hypothesis veers away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-is-consciousness\/\">from most neuroscientists<\/a>, who generally see consciousness as a narrative that our brain constructs out of our senses, perceptions, and actions. Instead, McFadden returns to a more empirical version of dualism \u2014 the idea that consciousness stems from something other than our brain matter \u2014 in this case energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow brain matter becomes aware and manages to think is a mystery that has been pondered by philosophers, theologians, mystics and ordinary people for millennia,\u201d McFadden <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2020-10-theory-consciousness.html\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cI believe this mystery has now been solved, and that consciousness is the experience of nerves plugging into the brain\u2019s self-generated electromagnetic field to drive what we call \u2018free will\u2019 and our voluntary actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dualism Reborn McFadden\u2019s hypothesis veers away from most neuroscientists, who generally see consciousness as a narrative that our brain constructs out of our senses, perceptions, and actions. Instead, McFadden returns to a more empirical version of dualism \u2014 the idea that consciousness stems from something other than our brain matter \u2014 in this case energy. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114783","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}