A new video from The Economist featuring all adept philosophers reveals the answer to "What is consciousness?"

Singularity Hub reports, the Economist made an effort to seek answer for some unresolved questions. Is the brain just a mushy computer running wetware-something we can replicate in hardware and software? Or is comparing the brain to a computer a misleading analogy and a vast oversimplification?

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Philosopher David Chalmers explains, "The methods of science right now are great for explaining objective processes and objective functions. But the problem of consciousness-what we call the 'hard problem of consciousness', which is explaining how you get subjective experience from the brain-is not that kind of question."

According to the Huffington Post, Giulio Tononi and Christof Koch put forth a new framework called Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to experimentally measure consciousness.

IIT claims to provide a precise way to measure consciousness and deduce the phenomenon in mathematical terms. Tononi and Koch are working actively with bright minds from outside their field to unearth one of the greatest secret of science.

Advances in brain imaging has showed that various parts of the brain active during a particular event and each of the part then process the information of the event separately and humans perceive all of it as a unified conscious experience.

The new technology challenges the conventional theory that the brain trying to form a picture of its own inner workings is almost impossible. According to philosopher Daniel Dennett the new technology works as a mirror to the mind catching a glimpse of our own likeness there.

Dennet shares, "Until recently we didn't have the tools to peek behind the curtain. The brain was about as accessible as distant galaxies. But that is no longer the case. We're now developing tools to study the brain non-invasively and developing the computational models to explain how it "non-miraculously" transforms information into experience."

So, now we have the toolkit. We just have to use the tools," he added.

TagsNeuroscience, Consciousness, Measure Consciousness, Human Mind, Mystery Of Mind