Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?

Re:Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? by cassianoleal on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:14PM (#37719873)

Many people arrive at the same idea/perception, be it through meditation and/or with the help of psychedelics.

I think it was Terrence McKenna who described the brain as an antenna that tunes in to a certain band of the universal consciousness, and that's what we consider to be the thoughts of an individual.

More or less same idea, slightly different way of phrasing it.

I believe some buddhist practitioners also have a similar way of thinking.

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Re:Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? by wafer_thin on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:07PM (#37720380)

I've wondered about this and whether it might someday be testable. One thing I keep coming back to is the brain's apparent search power: you see a 5s video clip and can recall the show. This means your brain can trawl all your memories of all the movies and shows that you've ever seen, without generating a fraction of the heat energy of search done in a computer. It's pretty weird to think our brains can actually do this without help...

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