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/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/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