Many theories abound but most agree that consciousness has to involve the integration of activity from several brain networks, allowing us to perceive our surroundings as one single unifying experience rather than isolated sensory perceptions. One proponent of this idea was Francis Crick, a pioneering neuroscientist who earlier in his career had identified the structure of DNA. Just days before he died in July 2004, Crick was working on a paper that suggested our consciousness needs something akin to an orchestra conductor to bind all of our different external and internal perceptions together. So who is the orchestra conductor suggested by Crick? Is he like an old man with a long white beard sitting on a cloud? Is he like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy? Perhaps he is like spider man, spider man, does whatever a spider can? newscientist/article/mg22329762.700-consciousness-onoff-switch-discovered-deep-in-brain.html?page=1#.U7Xdhrsg_IU
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