Traveling waves in rat brains give hints about information transfer in consciousness

How and why we experience consciousness is a question that has long plagued philosophers and scientists alike.

We have come to understand that, when awake, our brains organize neural information for perception, yet we completely lose this organization under anesthesia.

Why this happens is a longstanding mystery in neuroscience, as simple changes in the activity levels of specific brain regions fail to explain this disappearance of consciousness. ...