{"id":31520,"date":"2016-10-30T03:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T10:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/neuroscientists-discover-an-ignition-switch-for-consciousness"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:06:33","slug":"neuroscientists-discover-an-ignition-switch-for-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/neuroscientists-discover-an-ignition-switch-for-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists Discover an Ignition Switch for Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-discover-an-ignition-switch-for-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the Latest?<\/p>\n<p>When Francis Crick, the English scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA, died in 2004, he and a colleague were in the midst of researching the potential existence of an on-off switch for consciousness located somewhere deep within the brain. Crick\u2019s hypothesis likened the proposed switch to an orchestra conductor \u201cto bind all of our different external and internal perceptions together.\u201d Researchers at George Washington University in Washington DC believe they may have found Crick\u2019s conductor. As it happens, it\u2019s located in the exact part of the brain Crick had initially guessed: the claustrum.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the Big Idea?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideafeed\/brain-scientists-discover-an-ignition-switch-for-consciousness\">http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideafeed\/brain-scientists-discover-an-ig...sciousness<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the Latest? When Francis Crick, the English scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA, died in 2004, he and a colleague were in the midst of researching the potential existence of an on-off switch for consciousness located somewhere deep within the brain. Crick\u2019s hypothesis likened the proposed switch to an orchestra conductor \u201cto [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65893,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions\/65893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}