{"id":166747,"date":"2023-07-01T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T02:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-unveil-new-results-in-hunt-to-pinpoint-the-seat-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2023-07-01T21:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T02:24:41","slug":"scientists-unveil-new-results-in-hunt-to-pinpoint-the-seat-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-unveil-new-results-in-hunt-to-pinpoint-the-seat-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unveil New Results in Hunt to Pinpoint the Seat of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unveil-new-results-in-hunt-to-pinpoint-the-seat-of-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It found that consciousness may emerge from a grid-like interconnection of neurons at the back of the head.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2019, the $20 million project, COGITATE, sought to explore an age-old question: how does consciousness arise? The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/10\/outlandish-competition-seeks-brain-s-source-consciousness\">outlandish<\/a>\u201d project threw the field into a tizzy for its audacity. But it set up a fair fight: the teams collaborated on specific experiment designs, <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/mbcfy\/\">published them<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/mbcfy\/\"> online<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0268577\">pre-registered predicted results based on each of their championed theories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Human brain scan data was then <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/06\/02\/whats-the-origin-of-consciousness-a-global-challenge-is-exploring-leading-theories\/\">collected from six theory-neutral labs around the world<\/a>, with the results judged by three experts with no money in the game to see how well the measured results matched predicted ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It found that consciousness may emerge from a grid-like interconnection of neurons at the back of the head. Launched in 2019, the $20 million project, COGITATE, sought to explore an age-old question: how does consciousness arise? The \u201coutlandish\u201d project threw the field into a tizzy for its audacity. But it set up a fair fight: [\u2026]<\/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-166747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166747","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=166747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}