Some Scientists Believe The Universe Is Conscious - Popular Mechanics

Some scientists believe more strange stuff than most will believe before getting out of bed on a Saturday morning, but the thrust of Caroline Delbert's piece is panpsychism where the mysticism of consciousness gets diminished with the application of staid materialism. From our point of view it's like rejoindering to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter". Still, Caroline has a few sprinkles of inspiration to intrigue and irritate anomalists. Paul Ratner has a particularly strange question, "Is Human Consciousness Creating Reality?" Physicalists can argue yes, saying consciousness begets will, which begets thought, sends bodies into motion changing the physical world. Bzzt, sorry physicalists! Ratner's thesis is far more provocative being the blood on the proverbial bleeding edge where thought/consciousness directly affects reality. Pish posh, you scoff? Well there's a controversial study which supports such a hypothesis, and Paul happily outlines it for us! Meanwhile over at Mind Matters News is a stern rebuke to a piece published at The Conversation, one so stupid we didn't deign to link it here, concerning how Consciousness Does Not Really Exist. Funny how 883 words by two stuffy academics are shut down with a mere 44 words. (CS)

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