Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Signature of consciousness captured in brain scans

This has profound implications:
A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes....

The team thinks that reproducibility – the replication of similar neural patterns in the brain each time it becomes conscious of the same sensory input – gives us clues as to what consciousness is.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18150-signature-of-consciousness-captured-in-brain-scans.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 18, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    Fred,

    Have you seen the Bacon Sunrise?

    http://gizmodo.com/5406575/bacon-sunrise

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  2. UnknownNovember 18, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    Ah, yes, "Bacon sunrise." Alas, it lags far behind the efforts of our European friends:

    http://tinyurl.com/ygcz6nx

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  3. rocketmouseNovember 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM

    "Bacon Sunrise" captured my consciousness, "negroni-meat" not so much...

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