Sunday Special: G O D ?

Does human consciousness exist separate from matter, or is it embodied in the body – a critical player in anything that has to do with mind? (Answer at the end of this article!)

Consciousness is considered by leading scientists as the central unsolved mystery of the 21st Century: “I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have to imagine how we can understand consciousness,” says Edward Witten, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. 

To find the answer we must first go to the beginning and set the stage for what we have today!

Life was regulated at first without feelings of any sort; there was no mind and no consciousness. “There was,” Damasio writes, “a set of homeostatic mechanisms blindly making the choices that would turn out to be more conducive to survival. 

The arrival of nervous systems, capable of mapping and image-making, opened the way for simple minds to enter the scene. (We will get to this.) Since 2000, concludes Damasio, “I have been defending the idea that the body is a critical player in anything that has to do with mind.”

The English astronomer, Fred Hoyle suggested an even more radical hypothesis: That quantum effects in the human brain leave open the possibility of a “superintelligence using a subtle connection (influence) on living matter to express itself in this dimension..... or reality!

SO! Without mind, there might as well be nothing. Colin McGinn at the University of Miami believes that no matter how much scientists study the brain, the mind is fundamentally incapable of comprehending itself because the root of our consciousness lies outside of our current reality. [Ab Extra].

“Is it possible that consciousness may exist by itself?" asks Andrei Linde, Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University. “Will it not turn out, with the further development of science, that the study of the universe and the study of consciousness will be inseparably linked, and that ultimate progress in the one will be impossible without progress in the other?”

The question that has intrigued several of the planet’s great physicists, including Stanford’s Andre Linde and Princeton’s John Archibald Wheeler in the last decades of his life, was: “are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?” 

Which leads to the question: "Are we living in a “participatory,” conscious universe, a cosmos in which all of us are embedded as co-creators." 

OF COURSE, WE ARE!

This leads us to the conclusion that I am God............ looking at things through a human brain....... the same as a dog is God looking at things through a dog's brain, and also the same as my neighbour George is God......... looking at things through George's brain!

SO! The corollary of all this is that ya can't have one without the other...... and deep down underneath we are all the same thing!! 

The way I see it anyway!