Next, they discovered the specific cell types that played a role in the shift to an unconscious state and ... matrix cells with higher order cortex are critical for consciousness," says Hudetz ...

Because IIT is concerned with consciousness as an abstract state of an arbitrary information-processing ... The thalamocortical system, however, is not easily subdivided and, as such, would have a ...

The authorities do not want you to alter your state of consciousness. In 2016, the government passed a law banning all psychoactive substances except caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. But can you ...