{"id":166586,"date":"2023-06-28T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-brain-scientist-and-a-philosopher-have-resolved-a-25-year-old-wager-on-consciousness"},"modified":"2023-06-28T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:23:36","slug":"a-brain-scientist-and-a-philosopher-have-resolved-a-25-year-old-wager-on-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-brain-scientist-and-a-philosopher-have-resolved-a-25-year-old-wager-on-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"A brain scientist and a philosopher have resolved a 25-year-old wager on consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-brain-scientist-and-a-philosopher-have-resolved-a-25-year-old-wager-on-consciousness3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A case of wine was put on the line.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a report by Science Alert published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A 25-year-old wager on the source of consciousness between German-American computational neuroscientist Christof Koch and Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers has come to a close with the first one admitting defeat.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Koch ventured a guess that the neurological underpinnings of the brain\u2019s experience of the Universe would be understood within 25 years by putting a case of wine on the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case of wine was put on the line. This is according to a report by Science Alert published on Tuesday. A 25-year-old wager on the source of consciousness between German-American computational neuroscientist Christof Koch and Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers has come to a close with the first one admitting defeat. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166586","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=166586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}