Max Planck: "I regard consciousness as fundamental..."

Perhaps the most concise way to describe this emerging paradigm in science is the realization that consciousness, rather than being an accidental by-product of neurophysiological and biochemical processes in the brain, is an integral component of the universe itself.

English philosopher F. C. S. Schiller: “Materialism is…a putting of the cart before the horse, which may be rectified by just inverting the connexion [sic] between Matter and consciousness. Matter is not that which produces consciousness, but that which limits it and confines its intensity within certain limits”17 [emphasis in original].

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner said, “The being with a consciousness must have a different role in quantum mechanics than the inanimate measuring device.”

In 1894, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Michelson proclaimed: “The

Max Planck stated that the existence of the field suggests that intelligence is responsible for our physical world. “We must assume behind this force [that we see as matter] the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.” He concluded, “This Mind is the matrix of all matter [author’s brackets and italics].”15