{"id":240597,"date":"2026-07-10T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:03:27","slug":"how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"How working memory could give rise to consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iv often thought of this possibility myself.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we\u2019re engaged in right now, and scientists think it may be closely entwined with consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/henry-taylor\/\" data-click-position=\"authorlink\">Henry Taylor<\/a> &amp; <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/the-conversation-us\/\" data-click-position=\"authorlink\"><i>The Conversation<\/i> US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iv often thought of this possibility myself. Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we\u2019re engaged in right now, and scientists think it may be closely entwined with consciousness. By Henry Taylor &amp; The Conversation US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240597","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=240597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}