27 - What is consciousness? (with Andrea Luppi‪)‬ Lefteris asks science

What makes us conscious? What parts of our brains are active when we sleep vs when we're awake? I met with Andrea Luppi a cognitive scientist with a background in philosophy that is interested to find out how the brain works and what makes us humans conscious.
Find out more about Andrea Luppi: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?al857
Link to the work discussed in the podcast: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.10.244459v1
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