Cracking Consciousness Once and for All

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/relati...-conscious

The increasing sophistication of brain imaging techniques means that researchers are better equipped to decode the mystery that is the brain’s inner workings. It’s understood now that our brain — the meaty slab that rolls around in our skulls — consists of a complex network of neural systems, that operate in harmony to keep it ticking away.

But despite this advanced, recent understanding, the phenomenon that continues to perplex scientists is consciousness: Why we experience it, its underlying neurological mechanisms, what it even is.

Luckily, a new study brings us one step closer to cracking consciousness once and for all. Researchers have finally provided convincing proof that a relationship between two brain networks — the default mode network, or DMN, and the dorsal attention network, or DAN — may be fundamental to keeping us conscious.

Really?  Seriously?  The author, Grace Browne, has an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and is currently pursuing her master's in science communication.  She should know enough to not even have considered writing the sentence in bold above.  Its the ever present promissory note from the scientific community that has absolutely no scientific basis beneath it at all.

I think there's a certain amount of playing with definitions of words here. It appears that article is  discussing the difference been being conscious and being unconscious. However, anything to do with consciousness itself is omitted. At best it points to a correlation.

The paper itself offers this conclusion:

CONCLUSIONS

This study suggests that human consciousness relies on a specific temporal circuit of dynamic brain activity characterized by balanced reciprocal accessibility of functional brain states. The disruption of this temporal circuit, exhibiting limited access to the DMN and DAT, appears to be a common signature of unresponsiveness of diverse etiologies.