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Can Consciousness be Explained by Quantum Physics? My Research Takes Us a Step Closer to Finding Out

By Cristiane de Morais Smith — 2021

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. If quantum measurements are one day taken from the human brain, they could be compared against our results to definitely decide whether consciousness is a classical or a quantum phenomenon.

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How Weird Is Consciousness?

Scientists may not even be asking the right questions.

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Alison Gopnik
2010
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Brains Might Sync As People Interact—and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

Studies have shown that people synchronize heart rates and breathing when watching emotional films together. The same happens when romantic partners share a bed.

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Conor Feehly
2021
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Consciousness and the Nature of the Universe: How Panpsychism and Its Fault Lines Shade in the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are

Coined in the sixteenth century by the Italian philosopher and proto-scientist Francesco Patrizi, whose work inspired Galileo, from the Greek pan (“all”) and psyche (“mind” or “spirit”), panpsychism is the idea that all matter is endowed with the capacity for subjective experience of...

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Maria Popova
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Do We Have Minds of Our Own?

The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.

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Meghan O’Gieblyn
2019
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Is It Time to Give Up on Consciousness as ‘the Ghost in the Machine’?

Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness–which has important implications for our belief in free will and our approach to the study of the human mind.

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Peter Halligan and David A. Oakley
2021
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Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness?

The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.

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Peter Russell
2011
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Why We Should Rethink What We’ve Been Told About Consciousness

If we as adults are not free to make sovereign decisions—right or wrong—about our own consciousness, that most intimate, that most sapient, that most personal part of ourselves, then in what useful sense can we be said to be free at all?

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Graham Hancock
2013
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Perspectives on the Current Global Crisis: A Conversation with Ralph Metzner

A conversation with Ralph Metzner about his book, The Expansion of Consciousness, and his reflections on questions that touch on the most profound problems we face for our survival, our existence as a species.

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Will Shonbrun
2016
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Consciousness: Eight Questions Science Must Answer

The brain mechanisms of consciousness are being unravelled at a startling pace, with researchers focusing on eight key areas

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Anil Seth
2012
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The Real Problem

It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be.

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Anil Seth
2016
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