{"id":198928,"date":"2024-11-08T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/consciousness-might-hide-in-our-brains-electric-fields"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T17:24:29","slug":"consciousness-might-hide-in-our-brains-electric-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/consciousness-might-hide-in-our-brains-electric-fields","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain\u2019s Electric Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/consciousness-might-hide-in-our-brains-electric-fields2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brains to explain our awareness.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/tam-hunt\/\">Tamlyn Hunt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/video\/decoded-what-are-neurons\/\">The neuron<\/a>, the specialized cell type that makes up much of our brains, is at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/neuroscience\/\">today\u2019s neuroscience<\/a>. Neuroscientists explain perception, memory, cognition and even consciousness itself as products of billions of these tiny neurons busily firing their tiny \u201cspikes\u201d of voltage inside our brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brains to explain our awareness. By Tamlyn Hunt The neuron, the specialized cell type that makes up much of our brains, is at the center of today\u2019s neuroscience. Neuroscientists explain perception, memory, cognition and even consciousness itself as products of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198928","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}