I think it is impossible to understand Consciousness because Consciousness creates the brain and the whole universe.
If you think of Consciousness as the thing that is first and which creates all the rest, it answers a lot of hard questions - questions like why is it so hard to even define Consciousness?
Or weird paradoxes in QM.
Or things like: why do we all share the present moment?
Once you start to see Consciousness as the foundation of everything, it all makes a lot more sense. Everything fits together much more easily.
A lot of religions have also come to this conclusion.
There is a book called Biocentrism by Robert Lanza, which I thought was really good and went into details about this.
> I think it is impossible to understand Consciousness because Consciousness creates the brain and the whole universe.
I think it's much more likely that consciousness is a result of brain activity. For example, if consciousness creates the brain and the whole universe, why don't I have any reliable access to what is going on except partially in my immediate vicinity? Also, how can it create such a wonderfully consistent world out there and I can not reliably drive to store because my mind is preoccupied and the rest of me goes on autopilot.
I think you would require fewer bits to explain it the other way around.
If you think of Consciousness as the thing that is first and which creates all the rest, it answers a lot of hard questions - questions like why is it so hard to even define Consciousness?
Or weird paradoxes in QM.
Or things like: why do we all share the present moment?
Once you start to see Consciousness as the foundation of everything, it all makes a lot more sense. Everything fits together much more easily.
A lot of religions have also come to this conclusion.
There is a book called Biocentrism by Robert Lanza, which I thought was really good and went into details about this.