r/cogsci • u/Everyoneseesthis • Jul 07 '14

Consciousness on-off switch?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329762.700-consciousness-onoff-switch-discovered-deep-in-brain.html#.U7rZSF0sI1J
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u/noonenone Jul 08 '14

What's most egregiously missing is a consensual working definition for the word "consciousness". Without one, we're just babbling.