{"id":144351,"date":"2022-08-18T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/quantum-physics-could-finally-explain-consciousness-scientists-say"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:28:45","slug":"quantum-physics-could-finally-explain-consciousness-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/quantum-physics-could-finally-explain-consciousness-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Physics Could Finally Explain Consciousness, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-physics-could-finally-explain-consciousness-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet, in the newly-created fields of quantum physics and cognitive science, difficult and troubling mysteries still linger, and occasionally entwine. Why do quantum states suddenly resolve when they\u2019re measured, making it at least superficially appear that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a36633457\/wigners-friend-paradox\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a36633457\/wigners-friend-paradox\/\">observation<\/a> by a conscious mind has the capacity to change the physical world? What does that tell us about consciousness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet, in the newly-created fields of quantum physics and cognitive science, difficult and troubling mysteries still linger, and occasionally entwine. Why do quantum states suddenly resolve when they\u2019re measured, making it at least superficially appear that observation by a conscious mind has the capacity to change the physical world? What does that tell us about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144351","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=144351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}