{"id":166553,"date":"2023-06-27T22:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-does-consciousness-arise-a-25-year-old-bet-has-now-been-decided"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:30:33","slug":"how-does-consciousness-arise-a-25-year-old-bet-has-now-been-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-does-consciousness-arise-a-25-year-old-bet-has-now-been-decided","title":{"rendered":"How does consciousness arise? A 25-year-old bet has now been decided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-consciousness-arise-a-25-year-old-bet-has-now-been-decided2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years ago, a neuroscientist and a philosopher bet a case of fine wine on whether scientists would have cracked the neural basis of consciousness by 2023. Now, one of them conceded the prize.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/alexis-wnuk\/\" class=\"\">Alexis Wnuk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years ago, a neuroscientist and a philosopher bet a case of fine wine on whether scientists would have cracked the neural basis of consciousness by 2023. Now, one of them conceded the prize. By Alexis Wnuk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166553","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}