I know it’s not directly longevity, but everyone on biotech twitter is excited about this and there are second-order effects that could be impt
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Consciousness as a temporal choice between different stimuli as opposed to being spatially encoded
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Doris Tsao
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Oct 17
1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness. New preprint: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.15.759299v1 (led by
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it should continue to unsettle us that the more we discover about our consciousness, the less metaphorical scripture sounds and the more it appears to be a literal account of the nature of reality and the function of our minds (matthew 13:14, deuteronomy 29:4)
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Doris Tsao
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Oct 17
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6/ Remarkably, when we reconstructed the image using neural activity from one of the states, it looked exactly like the conscious face, and when we did the same from the other half of time, it looked exactly like the suppressed face. This means that just from neural activity, we