{"id":190288,"date":"2024-05-28T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/thinking-of-consciousness-as-waves"},"modified":"2024-05-28T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:28:42","slug":"thinking-of-consciousness-as-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/thinking-of-consciousness-as-waves","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Consciousness as Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thinking-of-consciousness-as-waves3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First written:<\/strong> Dec 14, 2018, <strong>Last update: <\/strong>Jan 2, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>How can we think about the relationship between the conscious and the physical? In this essay, I wish to propose a way of thinking about it that might be fruitful and surprisingly intuitive, namely to think of consciousness as waves.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is quite simple: one kind of conscious experience corresponds to, or rather <a href=\"https:\/\/magnusvinding.com\/2018\/04\/25\/the-physical-and-consciousness-one-world-conforming-to-different-descriptions\/\">conforms to description in terms of<\/a>, one kind of wave. And by combining different kinds of waves, we can obtain an experience with many different properties in one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First written: Dec 14, 2018, Last update: Jan 2, 2019. How can we think about the relationship between the conscious and the physical? In this essay, I wish to propose a way of thinking about it that might be fruitful and surprisingly intuitive, namely to think of consciousness as waves. The idea is quite simple: [\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-190288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190288","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=190288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}