The neural correlate of consciousness (NCC) is a term made popular by Francis Crick and Christof Koch in the early 1990s. It refers to those neural activities explicitly correlated with conscious experience. The NCC has become a hot area of research in the neuroscientific community. The NCC seeks to avoid questions of causation, and philosophical debates that are associated with the study of consciousness; hence the emphasis on looking for a "correlation".
Example Usage of consciousness
ElevatedLife: You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew"- Einstein #quote
photograph_book: Bruce Davidson: Journey of consciousness - Steidl Photography International. http://bit.ly/7yq7Iv
cadkinson: RT @marwilliamson: Meditate each day BEFORE reading the newspaper. Otherwise, the thinking of the world captures your consciousness and ...