Ultimate ways to study consciousness without cutting into the brain

Ultimate ways to study consciousness without cutting into the brain

But what conclusion can be made from all that was said above? That theories and assumptions abound. Interestingly enough, prominent people link brain, thinking, consciousness, and mind together and are reluctant to consider them all separately. They pack them up into something at least somehow connected rather than separate, i.e., a whole.

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Meanwhile, a second conclusion immediately arises: in fact, there is no single method that could ensure the so-called objective control of how the issue of consciousness is investigated. There is an attempt by Penrose as a physicist to elaborate on the assumption "There may be a physical process taking place on some physical objects inside the human body." And this currently seems to be the only real thing that can be called "tangible." So research, development of scientific methods, etc., could probably go in this direction.

What that means is that studying consciousness with physical instruments and methods is just not viable. You can’t measure something that is quasi-quantum if you know it affects the outcome and the methods. It is likely that using the material physical methods and instruments to study such matters is not possible at all.

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But how can this whole be investigated? Where are the methods? Whatever terms we use to refer to this whole, do the methods exist? And if consciousness really turns out to be quantum, then a problem of measurements basically arises, because in the quantum world, measurements influence the result. Measurements change the state of the measured object.

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Are there any ways to explain these mysteries of consciousness, or is this all just another speculation? Or should we maybe pay closer attention to the manifestations of brain function? To the primary perception of reality, for example? The primary understanding of how the brain perceives that same reality and decomposes it—that is, if it does decompose it.

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A possible way is to observe the manifestation of brain function, i.e. thinking. It is not necessary to cut into the brain or to study cells and neurons trying to fathom what exactly is happening, in physical or chemical terms, in the connections between brain structures.