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Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? (www.scientificamerican.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe they met Last Thursday..

In other words, some things can be dismissed outright as silly without debating it. This would be one of them.

[–] TheYear2525 2 points 11 months ago

Hitchen’s razor.

[–] Orbituary 2 points 11 months ago

Perhaps it's an interference pattern unique to each being. The brain developed as a way to navigate the unseen of the unfelt, underlying cosmic soup.

It could explain why some people are more spiritual and feel like we're all connected (I'm not one of those folk), or why drugs like ayahuasca or DMT cause you to short circuit and see beyond the veil.