{"id":178839,"date":"2023-12-22T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/research-explores-cell-based-theory-of-consciousness-and-what-it-entails"},"modified":"2023-12-22T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:25:10","slug":"research-explores-cell-based-theory-of-consciousness-and-what-it-entails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/research-explores-cell-based-theory-of-consciousness-and-what-it-entails","title":{"rendered":"Research explores cell-based theory of consciousness and what it entails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-explores-cell-based-theory-of-consciousness-and-what-it-entails2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans and other animals with brains perhaps aren\u2019t the only beings on the planet to experience consciousness, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embopress.org\/doi\/full\/10.1038\/s44319-023-00004-6\">a study<\/a> in the journal EMBO Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Consciousness instead underpins all life forms, from the smallest cells to the most complex organisms. Far from being limited to creatures like ourselves, the cell-based <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theory<\/a> of consciousness frames the phenomenon a fundamental part of life itself.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional thinking about consciousness\u2014called the standard model of consciousness\u2014focuses on the brain, supposing only complex organisms like humans and animals have it. But the new cell-based theory argues that consciousness started with the very first cells that emerged about 3.8 billion years ago and plants, bacteria and even amoebas have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans and other animals with brains perhaps aren\u2019t the only beings on the planet to experience consciousness, says a study in the journal EMBO Reports. Consciousness instead underpins all life forms, from the smallest cells to the most complex organisms. Far from being limited to creatures like ourselves, the cell-based theory of consciousness frames the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178839","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}