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Re:The unending quest to explain consciousness by CuriouslyC on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:54AM (#21722228)
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.
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Re:The unending quest to explain consciousness by CharlesColeman on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:03PM (#21726448)
> 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://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

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