{"id":130074,"date":"2021-11-05T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/an-experiment-for-consciousness-scientists-and-philosophers-across-three-countries-debate-it"},"modified":"2021-11-05T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:22:36","slug":"an-experiment-for-consciousness-scientists-and-philosophers-across-three-countries-debate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/an-experiment-for-consciousness-scientists-and-philosophers-across-three-countries-debate-it","title":{"rendered":"An Experiment For Consciousness? Scientists And Philosophers Across Three Countries Debate It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-experiment-for-consciousness-scientists-and-philosophers-across-three-countries-debate-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of 2D<a aria-label=\"visual mental representations\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andreamorris\/2020\/06\/08\/the-2d-gremlin-in-our-head-distorting-3d-reality-johns-hopkins-study\/?sh=7841911f1c25\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andreamorris\/2020\/06\/08\/the-2d-gremlin-in-our-head-distorting-3d-reality-johns-hopkins-study\/?sh=7841911f1c25\"> visual mental representations<\/a> that fundamentally change vision science. \u201cThe question becomes, what are they exactly? Are they patterns of neurons firing? Are they some kind of phenomenon not necessarily reducible to any kind of physical substrate?\u201d Asks Jessica M. Wilson, philosopher and author of the book <em>Metaphysical Emergence<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up, scientists and philosophers spanning three countries weigh in on an experiment to discover the material nature of consciousness and the content of our experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with a definition: Consciousness is awareness. It\u2019s the qualitative experience of that awareness \u2014 what it\u2019s like to <em>be<\/em> something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of 2D visual mental representations that fundamentally change vision science. \u201cThe question becomes, what are they exactly? Are they patterns of neurons firing? Are they some kind of phenomenon not necessarily reducible to any kind of physical substrate?\u201d Asks Jessica M. Wilson, philosopher and author of the book [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130074","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}