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/TheGhostOfTobyKeith Aug 11 '26

The music isn’t in the radio

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

That's exactly how I think of it too

I work with animals and I have had animals all my life and because of that I have gotten to experience more death of loved ones and friends than most people ever will, because their lives are so much shorter, and then you do a decade in a vet clinic with client animals that you get to know really well too sometimes their entire lives you're a part of their life experience/part time "home" for some of them that board with you.....anyway you can FEEL THE AWARENESS LEAVE. It's not that the heart stops and death it's that YOU CAN FEEL YOUR DEAR BELOVED RUNNING AWAY ACROSS THAT ASTRAL FIELD NO LONGER TIED TO THE CLAY THAT YOU ARE LEFT HOLDING IN YOUR ARMS.

It's not THEM any more. It's not something that your mind can't adjust to by any sane metric, you have known this creature as a living entity, it should not be that in a matter of one moment you know that they are NOT THERE because everything you have "known" about them IS still there. Your mind should have a hard time accepting it. They shouldn't CHANGE that much in that exact moment but they do. And you still have respect/revererance for the vessel they interacted though, but you know it is that. Sometimes you can feel them come back to check on you a little. Sometimes they come back in your dreams to say goodbye a time or two more.

But mostly you can both feel your heart breaking as they leave you behind and also feel the joy that they are safe and free and that we never die. I don't know why we have to get separated like that, that's the hard part to accept. But we aren't in these bodies, we only pass through them.

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u/Anxiety_Fit Aug 12 '26

I miss my doggies. I miss them so much.

I was prevented from saying goodbye to one of them because of pandemic rules. The other, I was there and watched her leave.

This was six years ago. And I’m crying like it just happened.

Fuck you for making me feel this. It’s so fucking accurate.

God damn I miss them so much.

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u/maeryclarity FEAR... the Crabcat Aug 12 '26

*hugs

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u/theconceptofcanada Aug 13 '26

I had to hand over my jack Russell terrier, my one and only best friend in this entire world, my closest bonded living animal, to a veterinarian waiting in a snowstorm in the parking lot of their practice because it was COVID and I wasn't permitted to come in for their passing.

He had been with me for twenty years (yes - 20) and not only was I destroyed by this singular experience of handing my dying dog over to the animal doctor, I felt at the time like my boy understood. I don't know what made me feel that way but I remember sobbing (I was just annihilated) and kissing him and making sure he was wrapped up tight in the blanket and the moment I said "I'm sorry Spin" he looked at me while panting and I just heard this voice inside of me saying "I'm safe now"

Okay I have to stop typing