{"id":183301,"date":"2024-02-21T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/how-entropy-and-equilibrium-can-help-explain-consciousness"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:23:07","slug":"how-entropy-and-equilibrium-can-help-explain-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/how-entropy-and-equilibrium-can-help-explain-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"How entropy and equilibrium can help explain consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-entropy-and-equilibrium-can-help-explain-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about consciousness from the perspective of a physicist may be key to figuring out whether it is a single phenomenon or a collection of discrete states.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/karmela-padavic-callaghan\/\" class=\"\">Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about consciousness from the perspective of a physicist may be key to figuring out whether it is a single phenomenon or a collection of discrete states. By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/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-183301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183301","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=183301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}