Harvard scientists think they’ve pinpointed the physical source of consciousness This is where awareness lives. Scientists have struggled for millennia to understand human consciousness – the awareness of one’s existence. Despite advances in neuroscience, we still don’t really know where it comes from, and how it arises. But researchers think they might have finally figured out its physical origins, after pinpointing a network of three specific regions in the brain that appear to be crucial…
Harvard scientists think they’ve pinpointed the physical source of consciousness
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