>>11993170I've got a background in neuroscience (grad school)
I didn't read this thoroughly, just enough to get an approximation of what they're talking about.
It's well documented that consciousness and cognitive processes appear to arise from brain activity. By which I mean, loss of consciousness epilepsy studies have implicated particular regions of the brain, and studies of cognitive function and neurodegeneration or brain injury have implicated other areas of the brain.
It's also well known that activity in the brain, during specific tasks and in particular regions of the brain, produce what is detected as oscillations in electrical activity in EEGs (electrodes against the skull).
It's been found that if you can use a strong enough electromagnet, you can induce task-specific oscillations in regions of the brain. And studies have found you can induce the brain-activity seen in experienced meditators, or that you can provide psychiatric relief by stopping activity in parts of the brain associated with specific mental illnesses (and that the relief lasts a long time after the therapy session).
The oscillations in the brain are due to ion flow in neurons. If you can induce synchronised neuron activity, then you can induce the oscillations which arise from normal neuron function in EEGs.
This said, if you are looking for some /x/-tier nonsense about consciousness and quantum mechanics, this doesn't support it (and that isn't what "observe" means in quantum mechanics studies). This simply supports the main scientific narrative that cognition and consciousness are phenomena arising from physical brain activity.
You can find more information by searching google scholar for "transcranial magnetic stimulation" + some cognitive process (memory, attention, etc) or some psych illness (OCD, depression, etc)
