SECRET OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Scientists reveal where THE MIND lives inside your brain

Team member Davinia Fernández-Espejo, a senior lecturer for the School of Psychology and Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK, said in a think-piece for The Conversation: “We found two main patterns of communication across regions.

“One simply reflected physical connections of the brain, such as communication only between pairs of regions that have a direct physical link between them.

“This was seen in patients with virtually no conscious experience. One represented very complex brain-wide dynamic interactions across a set of 42 brain regions that belong to six brain networks with important roles in cognition (see image above).

“This complex pattern was almost only present in people with some level of consciousness.