Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?
Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?
Physicists and philosophers recently met to debate a theory of consciousness called panpsychism
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We dont really know what consiousness is, so for the time being it's left in the air. I think sabine hossenfelder did a video on this topic some time ago.
We dont really know what consiousness
This is only a problem because don't clearly define what they mean by the word.
If someone is talking about the capacity for people to think, as in process information from their senses, neurology has explained much of that.
Generally when it's treated like a mystical phenomena that can't be explained it's because people want an answer to some vague sense that something else is going on. They feel like there's more going on, but can't specify what there is to be explained other than this feeling.
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We dont really know what consiousness is
Neurology has explained how cognition works.
When people treat it like a mystical phenomena it's often because they want some vague feeling that something else is going on to be explained.