{"id":31797,"date":"2016-11-08T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/harvard-scientists-think-theyve-pinpointed-the-physical-source-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:23:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:23:29","slug":"harvard-scientists-think-theyve-pinpointed-the-physical-source-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/harvard-scientists-think-theyve-pinpointed-the-physical-source-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scientists Think They\u2019ve Pinpointed the Physical Source of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-think-theyve-pinpointed-the-physical-source-of-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-man-who-lives-without-90-of-his-brain-is-challenging-our-understanding-of-consciousness?0_8051048563793302=\">struggled for millennia<\/a> to understand human consciousness \u2014 the awareness of one\u2019s existence. Despite advances in neuroscience, we still don\u2019t really know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-man-who-lives-without-90-of-his-brain-is-challenging-our-understanding-of-consciousness?0_8051048563793302=\">where it comes from<\/a>, and how it arises.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers think they might have finally figured out its physical origins, after pinpointing a network of three specific regions in the brain that appear to be crucial to consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty huge deal for our understanding of what it means to be human, and it could also help researchers find new treatments for patients in vegetative states.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/harvard-scientists-think-they-ve-pinpointed-the-neural-source-of-consciousness\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/harvard-scientists-think-they-ve...sciousness<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have struggled for millennia to understand human consciousness \u2014 the awareness of one\u2019s existence. Despite advances in neuroscience, we still don\u2019t really know where it comes from, and how it arises. But researchers think they might have finally figured out its physical origins, after pinpointing a network of three specific regions in the brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31797","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\/31797","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49620,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions\/49620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}