What ancient Chinese medicine can teach us about ‘consciousness health’

Chay_Tee/Shutterstock Today, neuroscience treats consciousness as a process that is confined to the brain, as something that makes us aware of information that would otherwise be unconscious. This view is underpinned by an assumption: that consciousness is a self-contained and self-governing mechanism, a hidden entity waiting to be located and explained. My own research initially followed this line of thought, treating consciousness as a cognitive program created by particular areas of the…