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New Study Links Human Consciousness to a Law That Governs the Universe

by chunkyslink on 10/26/18, 7:09 AM with 1 comments

  • by Flankk on 10/26/18, 8:54 AM

    "We find a surprisingly simple result: normal wakeful states are characterised by the greatest number of possible configurations of interactions between brain networks, representing highest entropy values. Therefore, the information content is larger in the network associated to conscious states, suggesting that consciousness could be the result of an optimization of information processing."

    Could someone please explain how finding a correlation results in the conclusion of causal relationship. It's also obvious that your brain has the most active networks when awake.