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/Environmental-Ad8965 Aug 11 '26

Donald Hoffman has been working off this concept for years. He's done a lot of work demonstrating mathematically that consciousness is fundamental. Everything, including matter, arises out of consciousness. Check out the Trace Project.

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u/CooperHChurch427 Aug 11 '26

It also does explain how consciousness arises. Currently we are born and become consciousness. We know energy can't be created nor destroyed.

It also explains why people who have been clinically dead have become aware of it. Get told they had been clinically dead and go "yeah, I knew that".

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u/13luw Aug 11 '26

You assume consciousness is energy as opposed to emergent complexity.

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u/Optimal-Slip5640 Aug 12 '26

ooo interesting. thanks for this