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Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe (quantamagazine.org)
unfitted2545 7 days ago [-]
I have come to believe that consciousness is the fundamental state of the universe, and the brain is simply a filtering mechanism to the "real world", lots of papers show that on psychedelics, where the observer is seeing/feeling larger than life, the brain activity in areas actually goes down.

Of course we don't really know how the brain works, and I do wonder if you were on psychedelics for a looong period of time it would become normal, maybe some MKUltra victims can help with that lol.

dgllghr 6 days ago [-]
I have a pet theory that I like to contemplate which is that consciousness is a field that brings the universe into being sort of like how the Higgs field brings mass into being
anonymouskimmer 6 days ago [-]
I'm curious if this links up to the uncertainty principle in a non what's the word manner. A manner which isn't elementary, arbitrary, basic, something along those lines but I can't remember the word.
jrrv 7 days ago [-]
Very interesting. Almost feels like a cosmic implementation of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
infradig 7 days ago [-]
Sounds like a cosmic egg waiting to hatch.
inphus0rian 6 days ago [-]
This reminds of Henri Bergson somehow.
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