{"id":195196,"date":"2024-08-25T17:33:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/what-counts-as-consciousness"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:33:32","slug":"what-counts-as-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/what-counts-as-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"What Counts as Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-counts-as-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some years ago, when he was still living in southern California, neuroscientist Christof Koch drank a bottle of Barolo wine while watching <em>The Highlander<\/em>, and then, at midnight, ran up to the summit of Mount Wilson, the 5,710-foot peak that looms over Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>After an hour of \u201cstumbling around with my headlamp and becoming nauseated,\u201d as he later described the incident, he realized the nighttime adventure was probably not a smart idea, and climbed back down, though not before shouting into the darkness the last line of William Ernest Henley\u2019s 1,875 poem \u201cInvictus\u201d: \u201cI am the master of my fate \/ I am the captain of my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago, when he was still living in southern California, neuroscientist Christof Koch drank a bottle of Barolo wine while watching The Highlander, and then, at midnight, ran up to the summit of Mount Wilson, the 5,710-foot peak that looms over Los Angeles. After an hour of \u201cstumbling around with my headlamp and becoming [\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-195196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195196","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=195196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}