{"id":96126,"date":"2019-06-21T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=96126"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:29:31","slug":"what-is-consciousness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=96126","title":{"rendered":"What is Consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" style=\"float: right;padding:10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/What-is-Consciousness.jpeg?resize=300%2C169\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"94719\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?attachment_id=94719\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/What-is-Consciousness.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"0\"}' data-image-title=\"What-is-Consciousness\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/What-is-Consciousness.jpeg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/What-is-Consciousness.jpeg?w=676\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Where is it? Can it be measured? Replicated? Created? Marcus du Sautoy puzzles the problem of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Brain imagining techniques have shown that our minds work differently when we\u2019re asleep compared to when we\u2019re awake, conscious vs. unconscious. Integrated information theory attempts to measure how conscious a system is using mathematical formulae. Could maths answer the question about\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=94718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View On WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is it? Can it be measured? Replicated? Created? Marcus du Sautoy puzzles the problem of consciousness. Brain imagining techniques have shown that our minds work differently when we\u2019re asleep compared to when we\u2019re awake, conscious vs. unconscious. Integrated information theory attempts to measure how conscious a system is using mathematical formulae. Could maths answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94718,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=94718","url_meta":{"origin":96126,"position":0},"title":"What is Consciousness?","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"21\/06\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Where is it? 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