Measuring Consciousness
A team of consciousness scientists in Wisconsin are exploring new frontiers, “translating the poetry of our conscious experiences into the precise language of mathematics.”
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“Our neurons are basically fancy photodiodes, producing electric bursts in response to incoming signals. But the conscious experiences they produce contain far more information than in a single diode. In other words, they reduce much more uncertainty. While a photodiode can be in one of two states, our brains can be in one of trillions of states. Not only can we tell the difference between a Chaplin movie and a potato chip, but our brains can go into a different state from one frame of the movie to the next.”
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