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How Science Thinks about Consciousness
- sleep isn't simply a shutdown — it’s a different state of consciousness .
from How Science Thinks about Consciousness by Suzi Travis
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- The brain regions thought to be responsible for our states of consciousness are located in the brainstem, which, evolutionarily speaking, is the oldest part of the brain.
from How Science Thinks about Consciousness by Suzi Travis
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- The idea of states of consciousness is closely tied to the idea of arousal. States of consciousness might include states of wakefulness, sleep and anesthesia. But they also include other states, like meditative states, drug-induced states, or changes in consciousness states due to injury.
from How Science Thinks about Consciousness by Suzi Travis
baja added 2mo ago