Researchers find major clue to consciousness

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We still don’t know what “consciousness” actually means. But in a new study, researchers have used the equations of quantum mechanics to determine a brain’s “criticality,” a measure which allows them to separate waking brains from sleeping ones. I think they’re onto something. Let’s take a look.

Paper: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

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