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^This...exactly.

This seems all kinds of testable. Construct apparatus to significantly interfere with the fields, turn it one, then look for changes...if it's really something fundamental to consciousness, that should be discernible one way or another.

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat...) is a very real thing that has been used for inducing behavioral modification effects.

HAHA this is why i love HN. Seems as though, given this wiki page that this has been an ongoing field of study for a while. Everyone seems to be dismissing this as out of pocket. I don't see why both action potentials, electromagnetic waves and whatever phenomenon we discover next can't be all contributing factors to consciousness?

The issue is you can't manipulate the EM fields in exclusion to neural activity as they are intrinsically linked to one another.

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