{"id":137948,"date":"2022-04-10T20:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T01:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/psychophysicists-your-brain-might-not-be-as-conscious-as-you-think"},"modified":"2022-04-10T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T01:02:25","slug":"psychophysicists-your-brain-might-not-be-as-conscious-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/psychophysicists-your-brain-might-not-be-as-conscious-as-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Psychophysicists: Your Brain Might Not Be as Conscious as You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psychophysicists-your-brain-might-not-be-as-conscious-as-you-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cConscious processing is overestimated,\u201d lead author Michael Herzog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/09\/200903114214.htm\" class=\"\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cYou should give more weight to the dark, unconscious processing period. You just believe that you are conscious at each moment of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When we ride a bike, Herzog mused, our bodies automatically make minute adjustments to keep from falling over without consciously thinking about it. But even with his team\u2019s two-step model, some of the secondary questions surrounding the ancient debate remain. Questions about how long these discrete moments of consciousness last, or how they differ among people, don\u2019t have answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question for what consciousness is needed and what can be done without conscious? We have no idea,\u201d Herzog said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cConscious processing is overestimated,\u201d lead author Michael Herzog said in a press release. \u201cYou should give more weight to the dark, unconscious processing period. You just believe that you are conscious at each moment of time.\u201d When we ride a bike, Herzog mused, our bodies automatically make minute adjustments to keep from falling over without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137948","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}