Sublime

neurons tend to be heavily interconnected. With all their talking back and forth with each other, it’s unlikely that any one of them can remain very independent. Instead, their activity becomes correlated the same way that the opinions of people in the same social circles start to converge. For these reasons, neural populations are ripe for applyin

Consciousness instead seems to depend on how different parts of the brain speak to each other.

The mechanisms of our intelligence are impossible to understand as long as you try to locate them in a specific place in our brain. Intelligence is what is called an emergent property: individually our neurons are primitive and limited, but vast assemblies of neurons make incredibly sophisticated behaviors “emerge” that can’t be attributed to any n

Dr. Thalia Wheatley, one of the foremost neuroscientists researching how humans connect with one another.

Stephen Palmer, a professor of psychology at the University of California who directs the Visual Perception and Aesthetics Lab,

Turin concludes from this that consciousness is not an emergent property of the complex nervous systems of higher animals, but is something more fundamental that works at the level of cells.