May 21, 2024
Scientists Are Working Towards a Unified Theory of Consciousness
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
How do you define consciousness?
Some theories are even duking it out in a mano-a-mano test by imaging the brains of volunteers as they perform different tasks in clinical test centers across the globe.
But unlocking the neural basis of consciousness doesn’t have to be confrontational. Rather, theories can be integrated, wrote the authors, who were part of the Human Brain Project —a massive European endeavor to map and understand the brain—and specialize in decoding brain signals related to consciousness.
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