An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
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An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
mechanics is scarcely mentioned in the context of general education even at a college level. Yet it cannot be emphasized too strongly that the classical physics consensus that underwrites practically everything now going on in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind has in fact been completely undermined by this tectonic shift in the
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The famous double-slit laser experiment, first carried out in 1927 by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer at Bell Labs, illustrates another spooky quantum phenomenon.26 Physics Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman has said the experiment is “impossible, absolutely impossible to explain in any classical way” [emphasis in original], and it “has in it
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The collective data suggested that consciousness is not localized to, or dependent upon, the brain. And further, it suggested that consciousness is primary in the universe—it is more fundamental than physical matter and exists beyond space and time.
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Consciousness is a topic typically not widely emphasized in the realm of physics. It’s normally explored by neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. Physicists aren’t trained to think about it. It’s outside their domain of expertise.
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
How can this be? The particles aren’t next to each other, and yet there is an instantaneous effect.
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Materialism—the foundational assumption of modern science and much of modern thought—is wrong. ❍ Consciousness is not produced by the brain; rather, consciousness is “nonlocal” to the brain/body system. ❍ We all have latent psychic abilities. ❍ When our body dies, our consciousness does not die. ❍ Consciousness exists beyond space and time. ❍ We
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ways, seeing geometric patterns, feeling unusual bodily sensations, having vivid imaginings, sensing an altered perception of size and space and time, hearing sounds that influenced their thoughts, and being in a dreamlike state. Participants given the placebo did not have these experiences.
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
“It is too often the case that people on both sides of the question debate the existence of psychic functioning on the basis of their personal belief systems rather than on an examination of the scientific data”46 [emphasis added].
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
As billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio advises in his Principles: “I believe you must be radically open-minded.”1