A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consciousness. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

If we cube this over the volume of the brain we get an information density up to a staggering 125 billion times more from ephaptic fields than from synaptic firing.

We will call this the “ego,” the “E” in the ESP-A map depicted below. 2 The ego is a self-conscious, reflective loop that evolves as an interpreter that functions to justify your actions.

The researchers released the MRI data, brain mapping methods, and a new Harvard Ascending Arousal Network Atlas, to support future efforts to map the connectivity of human consciousness.