{"id":31191,"date":"2016-10-18T22:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/consciousness-could-be-a-side-effect-of-entropy-say-researchers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:16","slug":"consciousness-could-be-a-side-effect-of-entropy-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/consciousness-could-be-a-side-effect-of-entropy-say-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness could be a side effect of \u2018entropy\u2019, say researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/consciousness-could-be-a-side-effect-of-entropy-say-researchers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impressive enough that our human brains are made up of the same \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/au\/news\/we-are-made-of-star-stuff-a-quick-lesson-on-how\/\">star stuff<\/a>\u2019 that forms the Universe, but new research suggests that this might not be the only thing the two have in common.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the Universe, our brains might be programmed to maximise disorder \u2014 similar to the principle of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entropy\">entropy<\/a> \u2014 and our consciousness could simply be a side effect.<\/p>\n<p>The quest to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-physicist-is-arguing-that-consciousness-is-a-new-state-of-matter\">understand human consciousness<\/a> \u2014 our ability to be aware of ourselves and our surroundings \u2014 has been going on for centuries. Although consciousness is a crucial part of being human, researchers still don\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-man-who-lives-without-90-of-his-brain-is-challenging-our-understanding-of-consciousness\">truly understand where it comes from<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-makes-consciousness\">why we have it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/consciousness-could-be-a-result-of-entropy-say-researchers\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/consciousness-could-be-a-result-...esearchers<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s impressive enough that our human brains are made up of the same \u2018star stuff\u2019 that forms the Universe, but new research suggests that this might not be the only thing the two have in common. Just like the Universe, our brains might be programmed to maximise disorder \u2014 similar to the principle of entropy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191","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=31191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65958,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions\/65958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}