Consciousness may be more than the brain’s output — it may be an input, too

A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.

Excerpt: “I really think that a lot of progress could be made in cognitive neuroscience and maybe biology in general if we accept that there are some things that make a difference but that are not directly measurable,” says Froese.

“It seems like that is common practice in science anyway, there are many cases in physics where we have very indirect evidence of things making a difference like dark matter…ok great, and the same is true of consciousness, we can’t directly measure it, but our entire life world is based on the assumption that it actually makes a difference.”