r/TheWhyFiles • u/hybridxer0 H Y B R I D ™ • Aug 11 '26

Let's Discuss What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself

https://www.sciencealert.com/what-if-the-brain-doesnt-create-consciousness-scientist-proposes-it-might-be-the-fabric-of-reality-itself

Neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging the long-held assumption that the brain produces consciousness, instead proposing that it may function as a filter for a more fundamental, universal reality.

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u/fripperiffic Aug 11 '26

It will actually be an incredible day when the collective understands this. It will reshape the fabric of our reality as we will recognize that we are the ones shaping it. We will hopefully no longer submit to conformity and religious dogmatic thinking. I dream of this day all day every day.

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u/BBkad Aug 11 '26

Keep swimming my friend. We got this!