When Does Consciousness Begin and End? - A PBS Article

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I think this PBS article will hit close to home for a lot of us. It was posted last year in May but the information is still relevant to a lot of discussions we have here.

Excerpt:

Despite these important advances, this research tells us very little about what consciousness actually is, or about how the brain generates it. Consciousness is at once familiar to us all, and deeply mysterious. We are all familiar with the content of our consciousness, and how those contents change as time passes, and we all lose consciousness every night when we go to sleep, only to regain it in the morning. Yet, neuroscientists and philosophers alike are still struggling to find an adequate definition of consciousness....

Full article:

When Does Consciousness Begin and End?

By studying different states of awareness, we’re narrowing in on what it means to be conscious.

www.pbs.org

Related article:

Physicists Say Consciousness Might Be a State of Matter

And an interesting talk (not sure about the credibility of radiolab.org but interesting nonetheless)

When Am I Dead?