{"id":30267,"date":"2016-09-17T23:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/this-physicist-says-consciousness-could-be-a-new-state-of-matter"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:26:53","slug":"this-physicist-says-consciousness-could-be-a-new-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/this-physicist-says-consciousness-could-be-a-new-state-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"This physicist says consciousness could be a new state of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzCvlFRISIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Consciousness isn\u2019t something scientists like to talk about much. You can\u2019t see it, you can\u2019t touch it, and despite the best efforts of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giulio_Tononi\">certain researchers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-makes-consciousness\">you can\u2019t quantify it<\/a>. And in science, if you can\u2019t measure something, you\u2019re going to have a tough time explaining it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-man-who-lives-without-90-of-his-brain-is-challenging-our-understanding-of-consciousness\">But consciousness exists,<\/a> and it\u2019s one of the most fundamental aspects of what makes us human. And just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-discovered-a-massive-ghost-galaxy-that-s-99-99-percent-dark-matter\">dark matter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-found-a-link-between-dark-energy-and-the-arrow-of-time\">dark energy<\/a> have been used to fill some otherwise gaping holes in the standard model of physics, researchers have also proposed that it\u2019s possible to consider consciousness as a new state of matter.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, this is just a hypothesis, and one to be taken with a huge grain of salt, because we\u2019re squarely in the realm of the hypothetical here, and there\u2019s plenty of room for holes to be poked.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-physicist-is-arguing-that-consciousness-is-a-new-state-of-matter\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-physicist-is-arguing-that-c...-of-matter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consciousness isn\u2019t something scientists like to talk about much. You can\u2019t see it, you can\u2019t touch it, and despite the best efforts of certain researchers, you can\u2019t quantify it. And in science, if you can\u2019t measure something, you\u2019re going to have a tough time explaining it. But consciousness exists, and it\u2019s one of the most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30267","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\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60352,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30267\/revisions\/60352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}