{"id":86698,"date":"2019-01-15T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-brains-autopilot-mechanism-steers-consciousness"},"modified":"2019-01-15T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:42:23","slug":"the-brains-autopilot-mechanism-steers-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-brains-autopilot-mechanism-steers-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"The Brain\u2019s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brains-autopilot-mechanism-steers-consciousness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freud\u2019s notion of a dark, libidinous unconscious is obsolete. A new theory holds that the brain produces a continuous stream of unconscious predictions.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-bottom:0px;\" class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/steve-ayan\/\">Steve Ayan<\/a> on December 19, 2018 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-brains-autopilot-mechanism-steers-consciousness\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-brains-autopi...ciousness\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freud\u2019s notion of a dark, libidinous unconscious is obsolete. A new theory holds that the brain produces a continuous stream of unconscious predictions. By Steve Ayan on December 19, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86698","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}