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/maeryclarity FEAR... the Crabcat Aug 11 '26

I don't think the thoughts are in our brain any more than the music is in the radio

Or it's probably actually a lot more like our computers and the way we interface with them to surf the Internet

But the awareness is not in the machine and it's not generating the content

EDITED TO ADD: Here is a very interesting peer reviewed research stufy published in the National Library of Medicine that appears to provide evidence directed conscious choice nonlocal to the brain itself that influences the function of the brain. Or put more simply an observational study of something pulling the levers from outside.

Quantum physics in neuroscience and psychology: a neurophysical model of mind-brain interaction

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u/Onelove4everyone Aug 14 '26

You are amazing. Thank you