An MIT neuroscientist proposes that brain waves perform analog computations that give rise to thought and consciousness, and that the restructuring and strenghening of the neural connectome is a separate function that affects future thought but is too slow to be our main processing method.
Sure, why not ?
Now prove it.
Or at least try to show it with experiments or something. Ideas are cheap and there are loads of ideas explaining consciousness waiting to be disproven or the lycky winner.
The main scientist in the article has been working on the problem for over 20 years and has one of the most cited articles in neuroscience. It’s a bit further along than just “an idea”: they already have experimental evidence for some of the simpler mechanisms about brainwave propagation and they’re now working on experiments to try and isolate higher functions.
Sure, but don’t you think all the other ideas are not backed in similar ways by similarly respected people? Humanity have been thinking about this since forever.
I wish them all the luck, it’s one of the most complicated matters out there after all.