{"id":225362,"date":"2025-11-18T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/this-is-the-true-root-of-consciousness-a-cambridge-scientist-says-and-it-could-upend-who-we-think-we-are"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:27","slug":"this-is-the-true-root-of-consciousness-a-cambridge-scientist-says-and-it-could-upend-who-we-think-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/this-is-the-true-root-of-consciousness-a-cambridge-scientist-says-and-it-could-upend-who-we-think-we-are","title":{"rendered":"This Is the True Root of Consciousness, a Cambridge Scientist Says\u2014And It Could Upend Who We Think We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-the-true-root-of-consciousness-a-cambridge-scientist-says-and-it-could-upend-who-we-think-we-are.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex\u2014the brain\u2019s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex\u2014the brain\u2019s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225362","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}