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This system could show how consciousness works
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How does the physical matter in their brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions?
Key facts
- But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln Lab researcher Daniel Freeman, and colleagues outline a strategy for doing so with an emerging tool called transcranial focused
- This noninvasive technology reaches deeper into the brain, with greater resolution, than techniques such as EEG and MRI
- How does the physical matter in their brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions
- The researchers lay out an experimental approach that would use the tool to help test two competing conceptions of consciousness
Summary
This noninvasive technology reaches deeper into the brain, with greater resolution, than techniques such as EEG and MRI. The researchers lay out an experimental approach that would use the tool to help test two competing conceptions of consciousness. “This is a tool that’s not useful for medicine, or even basic science, but could also help address the hard problem of consciousness,” Freeman says.