Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment | PLOS Biology
The authors of this Essay examine whether action potentials cause consciousness in a three-step thought experiment that assumes technology is advanced enough to fully manipulate our brains.
Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment | PLOS Biology Article Authors Metrics Comments Media Coverage Reader Comments Figures Figures Abstract Rapid advances in neuroscience have provided remarkable breakthroughs in understanding the brain on many fronts. Although promising, the role of these advancements in solving the problem of consciousness is still unclear. Based on technologies conceivably within the grasp of modern neuroscience, we discuss a thought experiment in which neural activity, in the form of action potentials, is initially recorded from all the neurons in
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