By Anil Seth — 2018
Our perception of the world around us, and ourselves within it, are ‘controlled hallucinations’ that the brain uses to help keep itself alive
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The question is no longer whether quantum theory is correct, but what it means.
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Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. If quantum measurements are one day taken from the human brain, they could be compared against our results to definitely decide whether consciousness is a classical or a quantum phenomenon.
The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.
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In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.