The neurobiology of this process is poorly understood, but amongst those that study the nuts and bolts of consciousness* (myself included), it is believed that this gradual awareness of the self and the environment arises as populations of neurons communicate in between them; and more importantly get synchronized with one another, which is the subject of this post.

As part of my research I’ve been working on making live neural network simulators which model groups of neurons and how they fire, here’s a first prototype…