{"id":28656,"date":"2015-08-28T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=28656"},"modified":"2015-08-28T17:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:31:47","slug":"consciousness-isnt-all-about-you-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/consciousness-isnt-all-about-you-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness isn&#8217;t all about you, you know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting article by Peter Halligan and David Oakley in <i>NewScientist <\/i>it is suggested that even if<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>consciousness occurs too late [in the process of a human action] to affect the outcomes of the mental processes apparently linked to it&#8230;it provides an evolutionary advantage that developed for the benefit of the social group, not the individual<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/280979559_Consciousness_isnt_all_about_you_you_know\">http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/280979559_Consciousness_isnt_all_about_you_you_know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious to get the thoughts of those here on this suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting article by Peter Halligan and David Oakley in NewScientist it is suggested that even if consciousness occurs too late [in the process of a human action] to affect the outcomes of the mental processes apparently linked to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/consciousness-isnt-all-about-you-you-know\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}