Neural Interfaces May Teach Us More About Consciousness
The key to our consciousness may not be the brain itself, but the waves that continually travel throughout the structure. Much like highways, our complex neural networks are simply infrastructure for our electromagnetic (and chemical) thought waves to traverse and interact. By focusing our learning about brain waves, neural interface devices will help us understand what gives us a sense of consciousness. In addition the potential for replicating artificial infrastructure exterior to our bodies, but accessible to our conscious minds could be possible. Yeah I know, it’s a far out idea but consider our brain’s division. It is composed of two main hemispheres and multiple clusters, and there is somewhat redundant data storage in various portions of our mind. Yet with all these interacting clusters, we have one consciousness.
Mind Outside of Body
As our body functions via gene regulatory networks, our consciousness emerges from an incredible complex network of signals. If network signals are the source of our sense of consciousness, what does this imply about the restriction on where our minds can dwell? While imagining this thought experiment, I considered potential requirements for a functioning external environment that the mind could spread to. Any extension to our mind would require similar brain-like infrastructure to our own physical brain: (more…)