{"id":216673,"date":"2025-06-26T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-consciousness-works-and-why-we-believe-in-ghosts"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:13:04","slug":"how-consciousness-works-and-why-we-believe-in-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-consciousness-works-and-why-we-believe-in-ghosts","title":{"rendered":"How consciousness works. And why we believe in ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-consciousness-works-and-why-we-believe-in-ghosts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consciousness is the \u2018hard problem\u2019, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consciousness is the \u2018hard problem\u2019, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216673","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}