An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life

Other prominent physicists such as John von Neumann and Henry Stapp have taken a similar stance.40 Dr. Stephen Hawking’s former coauthor, Roger Penrose, is even talking about consciousness. Penrose, with his co-collaborator, anesthesiologist Dr. Stuart Hameroff, declared: “We conclude that consciousness plays an intrinsic role in the universe.”

And that an analysis of decades of such studies showed stronger statistical results than the highly publicized “proof” of the existence of the Higgs boson particle (a groundbreaking finding in physics that led to the winning of a Nobel Prize).

taste of a delicious meal—these are all mysteries to modern science. Nothing in science can explain how consciousness arose from matter. Our current model simply does not allow for consciousness, and our understanding of this most basic phenomenon of our existence is virtually nil. Interestingly, our present model of physics does not even recognize

But science tells a different story. Science shows that atoms are 99.99999999 percent empty space.

If consciousness is indeed more fundamental than matter, as Planck, Jeans, Schiller, and others suggest, then the “paranormal”—“anomalies” in science, such as psychic abilities and the mind’s survival of bodily death—become expected. They are only paranormal or anomalous if we assume that consciousness comes from the brain. They make no sense in th

mainstream science resists these ideas. It vehemently rejects the notion that consciousness can exist independently of the body.

If this is true, then one might wonder: Do we all have hidden, wizard-like abilities? What happens to our consciousness after we die? How does consciousness interact with the past, present, and future? What is the role of consciousness in the universe? What might this mean for science, philosophy, and human civilization?

Another example is a mysterious phenomenon known as “terminal lucidity.” The term describes “the unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before death in patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders.”24 The return of clarity is reported to occur typically minutes, hours, or days before a person’s imminent death.

his subjects and the salamanders had recovered, they returned to normal behavior.”