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Re:Are We Zeroing In on the Hard Problem of Explaining Consc... by metamemetics on Sunday April 11, 2010 @07:12PM (#1257885)
By On I meant active vs non-active brain areas, I did not mean to imply that an individual neuron is an information unit with the capacity of one bit!!! Information is not even stored inside neurons but is a function of their connections.

My statement is accurate. You can temporarily and manually activate and deactivate areas of the brain using trans-cranial magnetic stimulation and cause all sorts of interesting shifts in conciousness including out of body experiences.

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