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

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force, which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the
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Quantum physicist Amit Goswami agrees: “We cannot understand quantum physics without introducing consciousness into it.”
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Just as Davies, Dyson and Nagel have argued, a number of scientists now suggest, based on the theory of the quantum world, that consciousness may in fact be a fundamental property of the cosmos – far from the ‘accidental by-product’ of a biological brain.