Well, FWIW, the old mystics all say that consciousness comes first, and the physical universe is something that happens "within" consciousness. We are meat rob

Well, FWIW, the old mystics all say that consciousness comes first, and the physical universe is something that happens "within" consciousness. We are meat robots. Brains scans have shown that we do not "make decisions". Your brain makes the decision and then a few tens of milliseconds later you have the subjective experience of "I decide". Free will is an illusion. The neuroscientists discovered this but the philosophers and public haven't gotten the memo yet. The fascinating thing is that the automatic meat robots become sophisticated enough to notice that they are conscious. This should technically be impossible but it does happen.