The problem of consciousness and the brain

Neuroscientist talks about the cerebral cortex, the study of neural correlates of consciousness and comatose states

What data communication brain and consciousness today, scientists have? What areas of the brain associated with consciousness? What conditions are necessary for the existence of consciousness? And what happens to a person during a coma?

Among the huge number of facts about the consciousness of his connection with the brain it is one of the most reliable. There is no evidence that consciousness can exist when there is no brain in scientific notation, or that consciousness exists after the brain has died. Any statements to the contrary - it is rather a demarcation, which allows to distinguish the true from pseudo-scientific facts.

Nerve cells do not necessarily always be associated with consciousness. If the presented stimulus that gradually realized, is that the activity may be associated with the beginning of the unconscious part of the stimulus, and then have the nerve cell - with the perceived. Not necessarily correlate neural activity is consciousness.

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The whole complex of existing problems makes us think: what is fundamental and unique to consciousness in the human brain? In the studies, which became known as "the study of neural correlates of consciousness", the question is: what are the critical minimum necessary and sufficient conditions must occur in the human brain to mind there? The study of neural correlates of consciousness in recent years have made a great contribution the study of critical states that there are hundreds of thousands of patients and are associated with coma, deep disturbances of consciousness, occurring most often due to a brain injury.