{"id":211585,"date":"2025-04-16T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researchers-find-major-clue-to-consciousness"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:12:52","slug":"researchers-find-major-clue-to-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researchers-find-major-clue-to-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find major clue to consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JSvm9Zg2Xik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Learn data science using real world examples on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We still don\u2019t know what \u201cconsciousness\u201d actually means. But in a new study, researchers have used the equations of quantum mechanics to determine a brain\u2019s \u201ccriticality,\u201d a measure which allows them to separate waking brains from sleeping ones. I think they\u2019re onto something. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<p>Paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract\">https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract<\/a>\u2026 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a> \ud83d\udc8c Support me on Donorbox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ sabine \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026 \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026 \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ sciencewtg #science #sciencenews #consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc8c Support me on Donorbox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c \/ sabine.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c \/ sciencewtg.<\/p>\n<p>#science #sciencenews #consciousness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn data science using real world examples on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link \u279c https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine. We still don\u2019t know what \u201cconsciousness\u201d actually means. But in a new study, researchers have used the equations of quantum mechanics to determine a brain\u2019s \u201ccriticality,\u201d a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,13,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-neuroscience","category-open-access","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211585","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=211585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}