{"id":189820,"date":"2024-05-21T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-are-working-towards-a-unified-theory-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2024-05-21T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:23:11","slug":"scientists-are-working-towards-a-unified-theory-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-are-working-towards-a-unified-theory-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Working Towards a Unified Theory of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-working-towards-a-unified-theory-of-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you define consciousness?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Some theories are even <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/10\/29\/the-origin-of-consciousness-in-the-brain-is-about-to-be-tested\/\">duking it out<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/06\/02\/whats-the-origin-of-consciousness-a-global-challenge-is-exploring-leading-theories\/\">mano-a-mano test<\/a> by imaging the brains of volunteers as they perform different tasks in clinical test centers across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>But unlocking the neural basis of consciousness doesn\u2019t have to be confrontational. Rather, theories can be integrated, wrote the authors, who were part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanbrainproject.eu\/en\/\">Human Brain Project <\/a>\u2014a massive European endeavor to map and understand the brain\u2014and specialize in decoding brain signals related to consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Not all authors agree on the specific brain mechanisms that allow us to perceive the outer world and construct an inner world of \u201cself.\u201d But by collaborating, they merged their ideas, showing that different theories aren\u2019t necessarily mutually incompatible\u2014in fact, they could be consolidated into a general framework of consciousness and even inspire new ideas that help unravel one of the brain\u2019s greatest mysteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you define consciousness? Some theories are even duking it out in a mano-a-mano test by imaging the brains of volunteers as they perform different tasks in clinical test centers across the globe. But unlocking the neural basis of consciousness doesn\u2019t have to be confrontational. Rather, theories can be integrated, wrote the authors, who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189820","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=189820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}