Researcher claims trippy 1980s video help explain one of the biggest mysteries in science

Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest that a solution could be within reach – but grasping it will mean rethinking some familiar ideas. Consciousness, I argue in a new paper, may be caused by the way the brain generates loops of energetic feedback, similar to the video feedback that'blossoms' when a video camera is pointed at its own output. I first saw video feedback in the late 1980s and was instantly entranced. A Cardiff University professor says consciousness could may be caused by the way the brain generates loops of'energetic feedback' rather like a video feedback loop.