{"id":237663,"date":"2026-05-23T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/consciousness-is-the-only-thing-that-truly-exists-scientist-says"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:05:00","slug":"consciousness-is-the-only-thing-that-truly-exists-scientist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/consciousness-is-the-only-thing-that-truly-exists-scientist-says","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness Is the Only Thing That Truly Exists, Scientist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/consciousness-is-the-only-thing-that-truly-exists-scientist-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He compares our working minds to a flying kite, where the kite is the brain and the wind is consciousness as a fundamental part of reality. \u201cThe kite has to be built from the right materials in the right configuration with the right tether, but its flight depends entirely on the wind,\u201d Reggente says.<\/p>\n<p>A radio makes another good analogy, Reggente explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The radio] doesn\u2019t produce the broadcast, it receives and transduces a signal that\u2019s already present,\u201d he says. \u201cBut unlike a radio, the brain isn\u2019t merely reproducing that signal with high fidelity\u2014it\u2019s interacting with it. And that interaction is what gives rise to our particular subjective experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He compares our working minds to a flying kite, where the kite is the brain and the wind is consciousness as a fundamental part of reality. \u201cThe kite has to be built from the right materials in the right configuration with the right tether, but its flight depends entirely on the wind,\u201d Reggente says. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237663","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=237663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}