{"id":137332,"date":"2022-03-24T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/matter-into-consciousness-most-ancient-part-of-the-human-brain-reveals-its-secrets"},"modified":"2022-03-24T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:03:00","slug":"matter-into-consciousness-most-ancient-part-of-the-human-brain-reveals-its-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/matter-into-consciousness-most-ancient-part-of-the-human-brain-reveals-its-secrets","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMatter Into Consciousness\u201d \u2014Most Ancient Part of the Human Brain Reveals Its Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/matter-into-consciousness-most-ancient-part-of-the-human-brain-reveals-its-secrets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe,\u201d observes physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/authors\/michio-kaku-quotes\">Michio Kaku<\/a>. The neocortex, observed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2018\/09\/first-drawing-73000-years-old-discovered-in-south-africas-blombos-cave-signals-emergence-of-the-human-super-brain-culture-and-technology\/\">Carl Sagan<\/a> is where \u201cmatter is transformed into consciousness.\u201d Located deep in the brain\u2019s center, the subcortex, the most evolutionarily ancient part of our brain, processes everything from our basic senses to long-term memories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMost Perfectly Organized Part\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noble Prize laureate<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Roger+Penrose&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch\"> Roger Penrose<\/a> suggest that the human brain and its cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper, is more complex than our Milky Way Galaxy. \u201cIf you look at the entire physical cosmos,\u201d Penrose says, our brains are a tiny, tiny part of it. But they\u2019re the most perfectly organized part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe,\u201d observes physicist Michio Kaku. The neocortex, observed Carl Sagan is where \u201cmatter is transformed into consciousness.\u201d Located deep in the brain\u2019s center, the subcortex, the most evolutionarily [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137332","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}