Ask A Genius 137 – The Claustrum Zap
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/03
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Rick Rosner: Hope to hold off long enough for the immortality stuff for the big thought cloud that is coming.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Two things, the big neuron, the other two that are with it are attached to the claustrum. They did an experiment on a lady. When they zapped the claustrum, she stared blankly.
RR: This is a rat?
SDJ: This is a lady.
RR: Wait, what? Wait a second, hold on, they zapped a person-person…
SDJ: Yup.
RR: …in a certain brain area that is associated with consciousness in rats.
SDJ: The claustrum.
RR: Okay, the claustrum.But the human claustrum does not have these big ass neurons?
SDJ: I do not know if they have checked. But the claustrum has been associated with consciousness and the reason that they thought three neurons, especially this big one that went around the circumference, was because they emanated from the claustrum in the rat.
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