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consciousness does not require a brain. consciousness is fundamental to the universe

• CuriouslyC 7y ago
  Indeed. To go even farther, I suspect that there is nothing other than consciousness. There are no particles and forces, only awareness and will. The stuff of physics is emergent from statistical properties of consciousness over a large scale.
  • CharlesColeman 7y ago
    > Indeed. To go even farther, I suspect that there is nothing other than consciousness. There are no particles and forces, only awareness and will. I believe the word for that is idealism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/
• hackinthebochs 7y ago
  Assertions aren't particularly helpful in this discussion. What reasons are there to think this is true?
• ci5er 7y ago
  That is certainly one hypothesis that has not yet been eliminated.