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Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa?
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Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa?
December 12, 2013 at 8:52 am (This post was last modified: December 12, 2013 at 8:54 am by Mudhammam.)
I believe matter creates consciousness but there are the mysticism-types who believe everything is energy and the brain is actually just translating all of that into the objects of our conscious mind, to which some extent is evidently true (those who have taken mushrooms or LSD or gotten very drunk/high can attest). I believe it goes back to the Neils Bohr model for quantum physics. Anyway, does our conscious mind create matter through different energy patterns entering our neural preceptors? Or is the model of reality you conceive actually the by-product of external matter around you? I think this is kind of a philosophy of science question. Thoughts?
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Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa? - by Mudhammam - December 12, 2013 at 8:52 am
RE: Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa? - by Ksa - December 18, 2013 at 4:44 pm
RE: Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa? - by Chas - December 21, 2013 at 10:08 am
RE: Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa? - by Ksa - December 24, 2013 at 12:32 am

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