Physicists Go Hunting for Consciousness

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Physicists have gone hunting for consciousness. Until recently, consciousness was relegated to the realm of philosophy, but it is now a serious thing among scientists as the true nature of our reality is becoming clearer and clearer. There is a hunt going on to find out just how consciousness functions and if it is at all related to anything physical.

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In the past, consciousness was almost entirely relegated to the musings of philosophers; it was too ethereal to be studied materially. But as science advanced, so too did our ability to examine the wispy intricacies of the waking mind.
Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University, has openly wondered if the minute interactions taking place within the subatomic world of quantum mechanics might give rise to consciousness.
UC-Santa Barbara theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate David Gross has offered other ideas. As Ker Than wrote for LiveScience in 2005, Gross “speculated that consciousness might be similar to what physicists call a phase transition, an abrupt and sudden large-scale transformation resulting from several microscopic changes.

“According to the theory, only certain parts of the brain integrate all that information.”

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