Diamond Mind #10: Can computers ever be conscious?
What if the most fundamental aspect of your conscious experience isn't found in neural firing at all, but in the electromagnetic fields those neurons produce? This mind-expanding conversation with Dr. Colin Hales, a pioneer in electromagnetic field theories of consciousness, challenges everything we think we know about how brains create minds. For decades, mainstream neuroscience has focused on action potentials – the spikes of neural firing – as the foundation of cognition and consciousness...