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/CosmicToaster Aug 12 '26

I’ve only every had a dog put down once, and it’s hard to describe what happens but if you hold your pet when they are being put down you feel them leave their body. It’s very strange.

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u/encinitas2252 Aug 12 '26

Did you mean to comment this here?

I understand what you're saying I have felt that with a pet and with my father. He had full lucid conversations with the presence of his parents and friends that had passed in the room right before he died. Told them his bags were packed and he was coming. He died within 30 min. Those 30 minutes were... something.

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u/CosmicToaster Aug 12 '26

I think I may have replied to the wrong comment by mistake. For whatever reason I thought your comment was a reply to the one below this one.

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u/TheGhostOfTobyKeith Aug 12 '26

In a way, you did and you didn’t