{"id":210517,"date":"2025-04-04T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/how-does-the-brain-control-consciousness-this-deep-brain-structure"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:06:12","slug":"how-does-the-brain-control-consciousness-this-deep-brain-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/how-does-the-brain-control-consciousness-this-deep-brain-structure","title":{"rendered":"How does the brain control consciousness? This deep-brain structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-the-brain-control-consciousness-this-deep-brain-structure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don\u2019t.<\/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-210517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210517","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=210517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}