{"id":231740,"date":"2026-02-20T21:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/electricity-creates-consciousness"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:14:03","slug":"electricity-creates-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/electricity-creates-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Electricity creates consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electricity-creates-consciousness.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we thinking about consciousness in the wrong way?<\/p>\n<p>Nick Lane is an multi-award-winning biochemist and an outstanding science communicator in the origins of life field. He is a Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the link to watch his talk now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How could calcium ions rushing through a membrane generate the taste of coffee, the smell of a rose or the feeling of love? Join celebrated biochemist, Nick Lane, as he argues that the deep logic of life is at root an electrical phenomenon.\u2019His theories are ingenious, breathtaking in scope, and challenging in every sense\u2019 \u2014 The Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we thinking about consciousness in the wrong way? Nick Lane is an multi-award-winning biochemist and an outstanding science communicator in the origins of life field. He is a Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London. Tap the link to watch his talk now. How could calcium ions rushing through a membrane generate the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231740","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}