This new Research Topic is, in part, a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the game-changing “neural correlates of consciousness” concept, first proposed as part of Crick and Koch’s 1990 “neurobiological theory of consciousness.” After thirty years of research and theory-building, scholars in the science of consciousness are perhaps not much closer to a widely-accepted theory of consciousness. Our anchor article for this Research Topic is a 2019 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience article by Hunt and Schooler entitled “The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A resonance Theory of Consciousness.” Hunt and Schooler’s General Resonance Theory of consciousness, described in this paper, which may be viewed as a type of electromagnetic theory of consciousness, posits that electromagnetic (EM) fields may be the primary seat of consciousness. As such, the dynamics of these fields become the measurable dynamics of consciousness.

Learn more and read all of the featured papers at the editorial link below!